According to BoingBoing, personal lubricant maker Astroglide has gotten itself into a slippery situation by allowing information on thousands of its customers to be accessible on the web. Information included names, addresses and lubricant purchases. Some of the information is still available through Google cache pages, showing how sticky the web can be. See: Boing Boing: Sex lube co's data breach exposes 250K+ personal records.
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