Your porn name could screw you

Canada’s Privacy Commissioner is on the case:

Users combine their first pet’s name with the name of the first street they lived on to come up with a personalized adult-film star pseudonym.

Problem is, hackers may be mining those nicknames to target people for identity theft, gaining access to email and bank accounts.

I love how in “CP Style” your “porn name” becomes “personalized adult-film star pseudonym.” Yet in the next sentance they say “hackers” instead of “computer programmers with malicious intent.” (aside:  it’s kind of like when someone says it was 35 feet, but Canadian Press translates that to metres, so you end up with an artificially precise “10.7 metres”)