A security consultant, Rob Bowes has made available personal details of about 100 million users of the social networking site, Facebook on the internet and anyone can download the file which is in the form of a torrent.

The file includes a list of Facebook users with respective profile link, user name and unique ID. Mr. Bowes has said that he made the file available on the internet to highlight the security issues on the site.

Facebook responded by saying that that there is not private information in the file and the details are already public. The torrent file was uploaded to a popular file sharing website called The Pirate Bay.

"No private data is available or has been compromised. Similar to the white pages of the phone book, this is the information available to enable people to find each other, which is the reason people join Facebook," Facebook said in a statement.

Mr. Bowes wrote in blog post that he included on the searchable information and has also included the software he used for the collection of data in the torrent file.

Facebook faced severe criticism recently over the changes it made to the privacy settings. Privacy groups and authorities around the world protested the changes and asked the company to protest individual privacy. Facebook the m introduces simplified privacy controls to allow users to hide their private information.

Despite the controversy, the social networking has crossed the half a billion active users mark recently and is expected to reach 1 billion active users by next year if it continues to keep growing at its pace.