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Data of 273,000 porn website users leaked on dark web

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In the latest incident of data hacks targeting porn websites, Paper Street Media sites, a network of dozens adult sites whose servers got hacked.

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For most people, visiting porn sites can be hazardous, especially when someone leaked all your activity on such sites into public domain.

In the latest incident of data hacks targeting porn websites, Paper Street Media sites, a network of dozens adult sites whose servers got hacked. Among this network included sites such as TeamSkeet.com ThisGirlSucks.com or TeenyBlack.com

On dark web marketplace, "Dream Market", a hacker who calls himself TheNeoBoss has offered for sale, a database with personal data of 273,000 users: name, usernames, password, email, IP address, physical address and city.

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Speaking to US website, Motherboard, the hacker says he wanted to publicly shame the site because of "their bad practices". According to the report, he obtained this data by an SQL Injection attack, a well-known flaw but unfortunately still widespread on the web. The hacker said he then alerted the publishers on this fault and asked if they had a compensation program for security researchers ( "Bug ​​Bounty Program"). But apparently, "they did not care," the pirate.

Subsequently, the latter was the 'forced' to seek another form of compensation on Dream Market, where he offers the leaked database for Ƀ0,955.

Paper Street Media, meanwhile, has another interpretation of things. When contacted by Motherboard, the company explains that the data was actually from a hacking in 2008. "We were asked for a ransom that we did not pay. We have made security updates and have had no problems since. No credit card details were stolen and accounts in question are no longer valid today, "said Jamal Hussain, CTO.

Yet Motherboard said it had received from the hacker, screenshots of the administration tool of Paper Street Media, with notifications dated 31 March.

Someone is lying, but at present it is impossible to know who. It seems, in any case, that personal data are properly true, even if they are dated.

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