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Details of 100 Million Facebook Members Published Online

Company plays it down. Thousands have already downloaded the information. Security consultant says users' personal information cannot now be made private.
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msnbc.com

The personal details of 100 million Facebook users have been collected and published online in a downloadable file, meaning they will now be unable to make their publicly available information private.

However, Facebook downplayed the issue, saying that no private data had been compromised.

The information was posted by Ron Bowes, an online security consultant, on the Internet site Pirate Bay.

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