This is a consumer alert: Hackers attack adult website! In fact, hackers targeted several adult websites. In addition to that, they exposed many emails. Also, this could lead to lots of embarrassment, even scandal.
The biggest attack hit adult website Adult Friend Finder. It brags of being the world’s largest swinger sex online community. There’s probably truth to that. Because hackers exposed 339 million accounts. Also, hackers exposed 15 million ‘deleted’ accounts. Former members thought they closed these accounts. Not really. But Adult Fare Finder isn’t the only victim. Hackers hit Cams.com, an adults only chat room. Hackers exposed over 60 million of their accounts. Furthermore, they hit long running adult magazine company Penthouse. Hackers stole and exposed 7 million accounts. So overall, they took over 400 million adult entertainment based accounts.
Some of this data is around 20 years ago. That’s when the Internet was in it’s infancy. And right before the attack, researchers found a flaw. As with most hacks, especially of this size, we don’t know who is responsible. There are some suspects. However, according to Leaked Source, hackers cracked 99% of all the passwords. Complaints of weak security built up for weeks. Some customers even complained of extortion. I guess those concerns came too little too late.
I hope the victims get justice. Maybe the law will expose the hackers in the same way they exposed the victims. Yes, these are victims. But there is a lesson we can all learn. Remember Ashley Madison last year? We learned a lot through those attacks. We learned a lot of these accounts, especially the women accounts, were faked. So the lesson is, leave these adult websites alone! I’m not one to judge, but in my years in this industry, such websites are bad news. Many of them lead to spyware, malware, identity theft, and goodness knows what else. What scandals will this hack lead to? How many important people will suffer?