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A network of ‘camgirl’ sites exposed millions of users and sex workers

Posted on November 5, 2019 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports (note that domain names in his article are not clickable links, to prevent accidentally accessing sites):

A number of popular “camgirl” sites have exposed millions of sex workers and users after the company running the sites left the back-end database unprotected.

The sites, run by Barcelona-based VTS Media, include amateur.tv, webcampornoxxx.net, and placercams.com. Most of the sites’ users are based in Spain and Europe, but we found evidence of users across the world, including the United States.

Read more on TechCrunch.


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