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from www.forbes.com – Those who enjoy Internet nudie scenes are dealing with their own exposure online this week. After a hacker successfully breached the back end of porn websites run by Luxembourg-based adult entertainment company Manwin, he decided to post the email addresses and passwords for thousands of users of YouPorn, which is essentially a YouTube for porn enthusiasts.

“See anyone you know?” asked technologist Ashkan Soltani, linking to the list on Twitter. Soltani also created a visualization of the passwords used most frequently by YouPorn users. “YouPorn123456789″ was the most frequently used, though other words related to YouPorn’s content were also quite popular.

Less sensitive than the passwords in this hack, though, are the email addresses themselves. Scrolling through, I saw quite a few that are of the standard firstname.lastname variety, making their identities easy to ascertain, meaning a good number of people have been involuntarily outed as YouPorn watchers.

This is why it’s a good idea to have at least one alternate email address not clearly linked to your identity. If there are certain sites that you frequent on the Internet that you don’t want tied back to you, you may want to create an [email protected] address. This isn’t just advice for porn watchers. If you’re signing up anywhere online for an account where you’re going to be making public commentary that you don’t want easily linked back to your identity, an alternate address is a wise move.

from www.nakedsecurity.sophos.com – Want a free password for one of the world’s most popular adult websites?

YouPorn, one of the world’s most popular porn video websites and one of the top 100 websites of any kind in the world, appears to have been caught with its pants down – after a list of many of its users’ email addresses, passwords and dates of birth were left exposed on a public-facing server.

According to security blogger Anders Nilsson, the credentials of well over a million YouPorn users were publicly accessible.

Unlike the recent Brazzers porn site hack, however, sloppy practices are being blamed for the YouPorn incident, with debug data about users seemingly being stored in a public fashion since 2007.

Hackers have been sifting through the information, and in some cases republishing it elsewhere online. So even though YouPorn appears to have now shut down the offending server – its users remain exposed.

This is one of those cases where it’s not just bad to have your password exposed – it’s actually potentially worse to have your email address connected with this breach too.

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.

But more than the embarrassment factor, there’s also a security issue here. We know that many internet users adopt the same password for multiple sites.

So, if your YouPorn password is now known, hackers might try that same password against your email address, your PayPal account, your Amazon account, and all many of other online resources.

If you are still using the same password on multiple sites, please change your dirty habit now.

Of course, some Twitter users couldn’t resist making a gag as the news of the data leak broke: