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Did hackers beat FBI to the punch? PornWikiLeaks Shuts Down: XXX Industry Worked With … FBI, AIDS Group Against Website That Leaked Porn Stars' Personal Info?

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Dissent

Dennis Romero reports an update to a privacy breach involving the posting of porn actors’ personal and medical information – a breach that I’ve covered on this blog in the past:

?Here’s a first (maybe): The porn industry is in bed with the FBI. Or so it says. And the two made magic happen from various positions in an attempt to polish off PornWikiLeaks, the website that posted the names and medical records of hundreds if not thousands of adult performers.

In a statement to the adult-biz media, the head of porn industry trade group Free Speech Coalition announced that PornWikiLeaks was no more — the product, it seemed, of a hacking campaign against it. However, the FSC also states that the FBI was poised to take it down at almost the same time.

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