Pastebin Now Hosts 10 Million Active Pastes

Pastebin, a site that rose to prominence thanks to it being used by Anonymus, Lulzsec and any self-respecting hacker to detail their latest exploits, now has 10 million active pastes.

That may not seem like a huge number, especially without context, but it took the site, which launched in 2002, eight years to get to 1 million pastes.

It grew 10 times in the past year, thanks in part to the media exposure the mischievous hackers generated.

Pastebin enables anyone on the web to publish and share large portions of text, anonymously.

This is great for hackers and the like since it can be used as a publishing platform without having an account or anything like that.

But it's used for much more than that. Initially, IRC users posted large portions of text on it, since they couldn't do it in the chat rooms, later it found some use with Twitter fans.