Given how sex sells, one might have thought the price for stolen databases containing emails and passwords of 3.8 million porn users, which a hacker claims to have taken from the owner of the Naughty America porno production house, would have fetched a high price. But no, on the so-called ?dark web?, it?s for sale at just 0.7048 Bitcoin, worth approximately $300. Meanwhile, more information has been passing around the dark corners of the net, with a separate leak of data belonging to 180,000 users of a forum dedicated to celebrity nude pictures, namely those stolen during ?The Fappening? attacks of 2014.
The databases for sale on Tor-based dark market The Real Deal come not just from NaughtyAmerica.com, but affiliated groups including gay porn site Suite703 and related forums, according to the seller, who also offered access to the server they claimed to have hacked into. Outside of emails and encrypted passwords, there were other tidbits of information in the databases handed to FORBES, including usernames, IP addresses and locations. IP addresses can sometimes be used to help ascertain location too, though as a Fusion article recently, noted, it?s not always accurate
Naughty America has not admitted to a breach but told FORBES since disclosure on 12 April it is investigating and looking to improve its security.
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