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YouPorn User Data Breach: Compromised Accounts and Phishing Risks

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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.

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