Slide Show: 2012 Pastebin Pinups

Some of the most embarrassing dumps of leaked databases, exposed corporate IP and breached customer records in 2012

Dark Reading Staff, Dark Reading

November 21, 2012

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An Egyptian hacker is the latest to gain fame through his Pastebin exhibitionism when just last week he dumped a database of 150,000 email and password combos of Adobe customers and partners associated with the company's Connectusers.com website. Like many stolen caches, the repository was pilfered using tried and true SQL injection techniques.

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