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Monday, April 23, 2007
Sex lube co's data breach exposes 250K+ personal records
Sexual lubricant maker Astroglide is reported to have suffered a data breach recently, and it sounds like a doozy. Personal information about more than a quarter million people -- including names, mailing addresses, and the specific variety of lube they purchased -- ended up on Google-accessible web pages. Some of the data may have been accessible online for days, months, even years (some records date back to 2003). And some of the data remains available through Google's cache even now, because Astroglide apparently failed to clean up the mess properly.
Here's a link to an April 21 blog post at Homeland Stupidity, and Wired News Threat Level blog has an extensive post with updates from Google spokespersons today.
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