HSBC has apologized after customers trying to access the website for their now-defunct Youth Entrepreneur Awards were shocked/embarrassed/delighted to find themselves on a pornographic website.
After the awards were scrapped in 2011, a mainland Chinese porn site took over the URL www.asiayea.com, offering its unexpected visitors everything from Caribbean and uniform fetish flicks to Japanese hentai and something called the "hottie cavalry."
We're pretty sure that's not going to be Crimean War-themed smut or filthy War and Peace fan art but we're not about click the link and have our dreams shattered.
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Apparently some web users weren't quite as amused as us, however, because after removing the hyperlink HSBC issued a public statement in which they said that the bank "is not in any way associated with the external third-party website" and that they "would like to apologize to the public for any inconvenience caused."
Unlike the memorable (i.e. haunting) incident recently in which Macau's government website was taken over by weird Japanese horse porn, HSBC was not itself comprised by the hiccup and insist that their online wbanking services remain secure.
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