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Fri 07 Jul 2010Software code allows Facebook details to be published
THE PERSONAL details of more than 100 million Facebook users have been made available to download from the internet via file-sharing websites and torrents.
Canadian security consultant Ron Bowes of Skull Security developed a piece of software code that enabled him to harvest data on Facebook users who have not amended their privacy setting to make their information unavailable to search engines.
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