Brace Yourselves For This Shocking Porn Revelation - I'm Not Paying My Blackmailer

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10. The hacked password angle is pretty cool

KrebsOnSecurity heard from three different readers who received a similar email in the past 72 hours. In every case, the recipients said the password referenced in the email’s opening sentence was in fact a password they had previously used at an account online that was tied to their email address.

However, all three recipients said the password was close to ten years old, and that none of the passwords cited in the sextortion email they received had been used anytime on their current computers.

Even though it is an ancient and now-unused password - I think I may have used it on DU circa 2006 - it really does catch your attention in the subject line, and there is a brief moment of "uh-oh" when you see it in a subject line.

It's a cute one.