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Hacker claims porn site users compromisedquote: LONDON - A hacker claims to have compromised the personal information of more than 350,000 users after breaking into a disused website operated by pornography provider Brazzers.
Kate Miller, director of communications for site owner Manwin Holding SARL, said Saturday it was "currently investigating the issue" but that no credit card information has been leaked.
Miller said it appeared that the hacker had gained access to an inactive forum to help enter other, linked websites. She said people who were potentially affected were being notified of the security breach by the company.
In an email, she said that security was "a priority at all times" and that the company would do all it could to safeguard its users' information. The email went on to blame the hacker for "illegal and prohibited cyber criminal activities."
The breach is a potential embarrassment for Luxembourg-based Manwin, which runs some of the world's best-known pornography websites.
A small sample of the hundreds of thousands of pieces of user data allegedly compromised were posted to the Internet earlier this week. Emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords were divulged, and in some cases it was possible to infer porn users' full names and country of origin.
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SnowyLock him up!!! Premium Member join:2003-04-05 Kailua, HI
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Snowy
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2012-Feb-11 11:32 pm
said by Link Logger:Well if it wasn't disused before it will be now
disuse breeds abuse |
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Given the massive amount of affiliate, traffic, and revenue boosting sites in that particular industry, it surprises me this doesn't happen more often.
Actually, it probably does happen quite a bit, but the average person doesn't really want to talk about their "personal" accounts in watercooler conversation... |
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I hope they didn't publish my real name. |
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dosdoxies Premium Member join:2004-12-15 Wallingford, PA |
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What? There's porn on the internet? That's news to me. How have I not heard about this before? |
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fatnesssubtle
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said by Link Logger:quote: A small sample of the hundreds of thousands of pieces of user data allegedly compromised were posted to the Internet earlier this week. Emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords were divulged, and in some cases it was possible to infer porn users' full names and country of origin.
Dumb question: don't porn sites usually share this kind of information with each other (silently but) routinely? |
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therube join:2004-11-11 Randallstown, MD |
Porn is as competitive a business as any other (just better pricks, I mean perks ) so why would they want to share with others. |
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I'm going to give credit card numbers and other such personal info to a porn site? Not bloody likely.
I could post several links right now to totally free porn sites, no type of membership whatsoever required, where virtually any and every fetish is catered to.
Maybe paying and joining porn sites was the only way to get it online at one time, but for years now that's been entirely unnecessary. I would have no idea how a pay porn site would even be able to stay in business these days-- of course, hence the 'disused' portion of the story.
Time for some folks to get new credit cards with different numbers and cancel the old ones, I guess. |
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fatnesssubtle
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said by therube:Porn is as competitive a business as any other (just better pricks, I mean perks ) so why would they want to share with others. There's money in it. Bigger customer pool to spam with emails in hopes of attracting more paid members. |
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dave
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2012-Feb-12 7:07 pm
Heh-heh. He said "members". |
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Live by the prawn die by the prawn Most sites as this are in the Restricted Sites Zone and | or my Hosts file. |
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