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Brazzers Porn Site Users Caught Out in Data Breach - Infosecurity Magazine

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lmost 800,000 account holders on porn site Brazzers have had their details breached thanks to a vulnerability in the vBulletin forum software, potentially exposing some to online extortion attempts.

Some 790,724 unique email addresses, as well as user names and plain text passwords, were exposed in the data dump

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