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housands may be open to blackmail

By Nick Farrell: Friday, 28 December 2007, 7:22 PM

AN INTERWEB PORN company which runs thousands of sites that promise discrete content has been handing customer details to hackers.

Too Much Media, which is based in New Jersey, has acknowledged that hundreds of thousands of its customers' personal details could have been stolen.

Apparently, the hackers got hold of email addresses which means that customers are currently being bombarded with spam. A company spokesman, John Albright, confirmed that no credit card information was taken.

However Too Much Media has not exactly been forthcoming about the attack which happened in October.

Albright claimed that an investigation was underway to the cause and level of the security breach. But although it happened in October the company still has not worked out how it happened.

The hack was spotted by a web hosting outfit OC-3 Networks, which apparently hosts more than 40 per cent of adult sites.

A spokesmman told the LA Daily News , said that during a monthly security check it was noticed that the same IP address was repeatedly trying to access the company's software.

The company worked out that someone had accessed the user name and password assigned to the Too Much Media.

Albright said that Too Much Media will prosecute anyone responsible for any breach of its servers and programs.

However the breach has shocked the online adult industry. Online porn sites depend on anonymity and there are grave concerns when its services leave customers open to blackmail.

According to the Daily News there is a fear that there could be a backlash against such sites as people become frightened that they will be identified. µ

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