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Hacker steals one million user logins from YouPorn website


From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:52:15 -0600 (CST)

http://news.techworld.com/security/3339513/hacker-steals-one-million-user-logins-from-youporn-website/

By John E Dunn
Techworld
22 February 2012

A million logins for the hugely popular YouPorn sex site appear to have been leaked after a hacker chanced upon a URL linking to a user list apparently left exposed for several years.

Smaller portions of the YouPorn database featuring user email addresses and passwords have appeared on Pastebin, many of them using recognisable first and last names.

The vulnerable URL has now been taken down by the publishers of YouPorn, which still leaves a large number of the site’s users at risk of having their accounts hacked of phished.

“You can imagine how employers and marital partners may be less than impressed to find you are registered for a website like YouPorn. And their discovery of your porn penchant is only a search and a click away,” said Graham Cluley of Sophos.

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