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Hacker Breaches Porn Network, Advertises User Data on Dark Web

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Dissent

Joseph Cox reports:

A hacker has gained access to administrative functions on the porn website Team Skeet and is advertising a database supposedly containing email addresses, plain text passwords, names, and physical and IP addresses for over 237,000 users of the site, as well as the broader porn network, Paper Street Media (PSM).

“I want to publicly shame them for their poor practices,” the hacker, who is selling the alleged data under the handle TheNeoBoss on the Dream Market, told Motherboard in an encrypted chat.

Read more on Motherboard.

I would have posted this yesterday, but you’d have likely thought it was an April Fool’s joke… especially when you read the firm’s reaction to notification of the breach – which was to deny that they currently had any problems. Read Joe’s article in its entirety. And then consider once again whether your firm might want to offer a bug bounty.

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