Several thousands of addresses e-mail and passwords presented as related to accounts on the YouPorn pornographic site were published on
Internet Wednesday. More than one million, even, according to Anders Nilson, of the company of safety ESET- including at least 6.000 posted via PasteBin, an application which makes it possible to store source codes for a public posting.
A failure for YouPorn, leader on the sector of the pornographic contents, particularly embarrassing for some of its users
An application YP cat laxist
Wednesday evening, YouPorn confirmed the error, by explaining why it did not come from its waiters. According to the leaders of this pornographic site of streaming classified among more visited 100 of the Net, a security breach was detected in a system of discussion on line, YP Cat , used by the site but managed by another company. The functionalities of discussion were temporarily decontaminated, and the company affirms that the principal site of YouPorn was not touched.
This instant message service managed by an outside firm had however stored data on a waiter accessible to the public since November 2007. However none the accounts of our 4,75 million users was pirated. (...) Our
investigation shows that because of safety practices laxists, YP Cat stored data not encryptées on a waiter not protected. Certain people affirm that million accounts was pirated, and it is quite simply not true , explains the official blog of YouPorn.
Even if the service of cat were suspended, the evil is made. In fact, many users can be recognizable by their address email. The more so as some use same information of connection for many more significant services being to them the account of transport and
Facebook. In the doubt, better is worth to change password to avoid any disappointment