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Sex Lube Maker's 250K Customer List Slides Onto Net - Updated With Astroglide Comment
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:53:53 -0600 (CST)
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/04/sex_lube_makers/ Sex Lube Maker's 250K Customer List Slides Onto Net - Updated With Astroglide Comment By Ryan Singel April 24, 2007 More than 250,000 people's names and addresses are now naked on the web after the maker of a popular sexual lubricant called Astroglide accidentally exposed lists of people who bought or requested free samples of its products, proving that there's no such thing as a free lubricant. BioFilm, a privately-held California company specializing in sexual lubricants, exposed customer data files dating from 2003 to 2007 to Google's search engine in early April. Google then indexed the pages and made local cache copies. A search on an individual's name now reveals that person's home address and the product they requested or ordered. AstroGlide, a once niche product that is now stocked by major drugstore chains and Walmart, took down its free sample page on Monday in the last few days (cached copy). The page promised users that "All information will be used for mailing purposes only and will not be distributed to any outside organizations. Except maybe the paramedics if your free trial gets out of hand." [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Small, inexpensive USB drives pose huge threats to organizations left unprotected. Download Chapter 1 of CREDANT Technologies eBook Data Protection to the Rescue http://www.credant.com/campaigns/external_media_ebook/chapter1/lp/
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