lucy24 - 4:51 am on Nov 1, 2012 (gmt 0)

He said Facebook asked him to forward and then delete the data, which came in the form on a compressed spreadsheet.

Does Facebook believe that the vendor sent our blogger their only copy of the data-- the negatives, as it were-- so if he deletes his copy, the data will cease to exist?

The 250,000-member hacker forum

Next week, all other newspapers will report that the Register had a substantial sum riding on bets that they could push the phrase "hacker forum" into the top ten Google searches.