Adult film site Brazzers hacked: 800,000 users’ details exposed from Brazzersforum
Users of the popular porn site Brazzers may find their identities and personal details exposed online any time soon. It has been learnt that even users who never signed up on the company’s separate forum may also find their personal data exposed in the data breach.
Motherboard reports nearly 800,000 accounts for the adult film site have been exposed. It has obtained the dataset from breach monitoring website Vigilante.pw, which revealed that the data includes 790,724 unique email addresses, usernames and plaintext passwords.
A number of details from the data were confirmed by security researcher Troy Hunt. He verified the dataset by contacting subscribers to the Have I Been Pwned website.
According to Brazzers, the breach occurred in 2012 but has only come to light now. The hacking concerned the site’s Brazzersforum, which was managed by a third party that used the vBulletin software.
“That being said, users’ accounts were shared between Brazzers and the Brazzzersforum, 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,” Brazzers public relations manager Matt Stevens told Motherboard in an email.
Website-hacking isn’t new. Dating website BeautifulPeople.com was hacked earlier this year, while adultery website Ashley Madison’s data was breached last year. However, Brazzers’ case is different. The hackers targeted its forum site, which, Hunt said, made the data even more sensitive.
“When it’s solely members of an adult website, you know the person has an interest in adult material, which, whilst potentially embarrassing, tells you very little about them,” he said to Have I Been Pwned. “Once they’re commenting within a forum though, now you have very personal information about their intimate thoughts.
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The forum has a separate URL from the main site. Stevens added that Brazzers has banned non-active accounts in the list of hacked accounts in case those usernames and passwords are re-used in the future.
