Porn Accounts of 380,000 People Exposed by Hackers
Users of porn site xHamster may have had their personal information leaked by hackers, according to media reports.
Motherboard reported a database of usernames, e-mail addresses and passwords of around 380,000 users were obtained by hackers and are being passed around on the “digital underground.”
According to Motherboard, who obtained the information from for-profit breach notification site LeakBase, it includes around 40 email addresses belonging to the US Army and 30 related to various US, UK, and other countries’ government agencies.
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xHamster denied the hack to Motherboard. “We cannot validate that the emails are real and we don’t believe that this is a genuine database,” the porn site said in a statement.
However, the Vice-hosted site also said they attempted to individually confirm the information in the database belonged to real users of xHamster by attempting to create new accounts using a random sampling of 50 e-mail accounts; all 50 returned the message, “This email already exists!”
Representatives for xHamster did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
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