A porn site has leaked emails and passwords of a million users due to careless coding.The list contains email addresses and passwords of registered YouPorn users, but no other personal details. While most of the data has been taken offline, some of it was copied to PasteBin.
"Looking at the data, it seems like a careless programmer accidentally left debug logging on to a publicly accessible URL as early as November 2007, and it has been storing all registrations ever since," noted Anders Nilsson from Swedish security firm Eurosecure in a blog post.
"For a security professional it is baffling how coders working on a website with such sensitive content can make mistakes of this magnitude," he said.
Both Nilsson and Sophos technology consultant Graham Cluley noted the breach could not only cause red faces, but wider security breaches.
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