About 8,00,000 email addresses and passwords for porn website Brazzers are at risk following an attack on the website’s accompanying forum page Brazzersforum.com.
The informaton comes from data breach monitoring website Vigilante.pw which was later verified by Motherboard.
Spokesperson for Brazzers, Matt Stevens said that the details match an incident that occurred on the third party-managed forum in 2012 which has been taken down for maintenance. “The incident occurred because of a vulnerability in the said third party software, the ‘vBulletin’ software, and not Brazzers itself. That being said, users accounts were shared between Brazzers and the ‘Brazzersforum’ which was created for user convenience. That resulted in a small portion of our user accounts being exposed and we took corrective measures in the days following this incident to protect our users,” added Stevens.
The hackers got their hands on 790,724 unique email addresses, usernames and passwords stored in plain text. The total breach contained over 900,000 entries, however many of them were duplicates.Another website called Have i been pwned? that helped confirm the breach says that record in the dataset which included a username, email address and password were stored in plain text. Storing in plain text means the details were just there for the taking.
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