PlentyofFish Hacked, Founder Emails Hacker's Mom

hellkyng writes "The online dating site PlentyofFish was hacked, and purportedly 30 million customer records were stolen. The site's founder, Markus Frind, is blaming the security researcher who discovered the vulnerability and the journalist who confirmed the issue." The researcher who reported the vulnerability is Chris Russo, one of the guys who hacked The Pirate Bay last year. He explained his side of the story as well. Mr. Frind says he tracked down Russo's Facebook page and emailed his mom.

should not affect slashdot crowd

[Anonymous Coward]

should not affect slashdot crowd since they do not date.

makes sense

[Charliemopps]

The "hacker" found a weakness in the websites security and exploited it. Then the website found a weakness in the hackers security and did the same in turn. You'd think the hacker in question would be a little more secure about their own personal information.

Re:Hyphens

[arth1]

Ask the good people at penisland, expertsexchange and powergenitalia that :)

Re:should not affect slashdot crowd

[Anonymous Coward]

My wife and I met via online personals. She was telling me that about 95% of the emails she got were from men with user ID's along the lines of "Bigpenis69" and "Bigstud72" and the like. That's the reason why she even talked to me, because I didn't have a name that was in any way reflecting my supposed virility. I have no trouble believing that most of your sister's replies come from old, creepy dudes.

Also, regarding the "plenty of whales" comment above... it amuses me to no end that many lonely geeks and nerds will judge less attractive women to be not worth asking out, only to turn around and moan and whine when attractive women use the same methods to exclude them from consideration.
Q: "Why don't pretty women like me?"
A: Because they're just as shallow as you are and judge as much by appearance as you do.

Re:Not surprised

[Joe U]

Who uses MSSQL?!?

The same groups that use Oracle and Sybase. People who care about database performance and support.

Bad Title

[Galestar]

He didn't email the hacker's mother, he emailed the security researcher's mother. Some unknown party hacked his website, and he blames the security researcher that was going out of his way to assist them in closing the vulnerability. After reading the researchers take on this, POF CEO could possibly be facing criminal charges for uttering death threats, harassment and perhaps a civil libel suit.

Re:should not affect slashdot crowd

[Anonymous Coward]

Perhaps your little sister is indirectly trying to tell you that she thinks you are a half-witted creep?