Pastebin.com hiring staff to get rid of activists' dumps

[Jack]

Pastebin.com has promised to police content on its site more tightly by hiring staff to delete data dumps and other sensitive information more quickly.

The site, one of several of its type and originally set up primarily for programmers, has become a favourite dumping ground for hacktivists from Anonymous and LulzSec over recent months. Many of these posts have revealed an array of personal information swiped from the insecure systems of targets including home addresses, email passwords and (more rarely) credit card details. The dumps are then linked to and publicised by Twitter updates from the various hacktivists.

Read more: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/02/pastebin_content_policing/

 

[McLovin]

This might be interesting to look into.

 

[malbky]

Hmm good idea. Pastebin has become google docs for hackers.

 

[jamescv7]

Pastebin.com where found to have most exclusive information from the organization (hackers), and because of this hopefully a useful site for giving information must not abused.

 

[Vextor]

PasteBin is a good website, but it is being abused. However, even if the content on it is policed, then hackers will use Google Docs. Also, it isn't hard to create a simple HTML website with some words on it to try and give out information. Pastebin being monitored will not change anything for LulzSec, or Anonymous.