[ISN] Hacker steals one million user logins from YouPorn website

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
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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