By a basic programming error, the data of nearly a million visitors from free porn site YouPorn.com on the street. The blunder came to light when a part of the database on the internet was published.
Research from EuroSecure, a Swedish beveiligingsdistributeur that the ‘hack’ has been examined, it appears that YouPorn the the attacker very easy. In november 2007, shows a developer in the debuglog function to have on the primary servers of the porn site. This was not only information about the performance of the server is stored, but also the data of new accounts in the logfile saved, writes the researcher.
The logfile was then someone discovered because it is insecure on a server and directly accessible. In the database were more than three million records, of which about 838 thousand unique accounts. The passwords were in plaintext in the log files. The most commonly used password was 123456, followed by 123456789 and 12345.
The accounts seem to be primarily created to provide access to the instant messaging service of Youporn. This service is since Wednesday night offline.