Lulzsec releases passwords for porn site users and admins

I don't know why you would submit this; you're potentially ruining thousands of people's lives if they use the same login details in multiple different websites. A login dump doesn't belong on HN.

It even says in the dump:

  These guys probably sign into Facebook with the same email/pass combo, so we suggest the following:
  1) sign into their Facebook accounts
  2) find their family members
  3) tell them all about how the victim (you!) signed up to porn sites
  4) watch the hilarity
  5) tell us about it on twitter!
  6) ???????
  7) PROFIT

I'm tired of reading posts about "hacking" and website break-ins; the fact that they get so publicized just encourages them further. It's not only the big companies that get attacked that suffer (and in a macabre sense I'm glad it happens, it encourages them to increase the security regarding their customers' information―if only it could be done in a way where no-one else gets hurt), its their customers―innocent people like you and me!―whose personal information is leaked.

  cat pronz.txt | grep -i <value below> | wc -l

  @yahoo.:      11241
  @gmail.:      4176
  @hotmail.:    3976
  @aol.:        640
  @live.:       587
  @msn.:        147
  @mailinator.: 18
  
  1234:         1728
  pron:         215  # edit: -1 for the 2nd line
  password:     91

I have a vague feeling there's something to be learned here, but I'm not sure what it might be.

Here's my opinion:

* This is almost certainly not the first time these porn sites have been cracked. I would not be surprised if a duplicate of this list can be had for under thirty dollars on the appropriate IRC channel.

* These are porn sites; anybody that gives a real email to a porn site deserves their spam and cracks. I'm not that stupid, and neither is anybody else on HN.

* The people that /are/ that stupid need to get their act together. Anything that penalizes them for bad information security and pushes them toward better habits has a silver lining.

* There are a bunch of people out there that will think, "It's a good thing that those dirty immoral porn-watchers got punished." That could give this cracking thing some positive press in an entirely new segment of the population.

So, although it probably would have been better if this hadn't happened in the first place, and most people probably don't agree with this analysis, I don't think that this is the end of the world.

And now its time for another "Good idea, bad idea." (The PR edition).

Good idea: Cracking Sony, a giant faceless corporation because they persecuted an innocent hacker who was enthusiastic about using their product, and publicly embarrassing them.

Bad idea: Cracking a poorly defended, low-budget porn site and then mocking US military service members.

Login on Facebook with email addresses and passwords from pron.com: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2646862

Send mails with the Gmail accounts: https://github.com/TheFox/pronz-gmail