Hackers Expose 26,000 Sex Website Passwords 497
An anonymous reader writes "Passwords and email addresses of almost 26,000 members of adult website Pron.com have been released on the internet by the notorious hacking group LulzSec. To add to the victims' humiliation, LulzSec called on its followers to try the email/password combinations against Facebook, and tell friends and family of the users that they were subscribers to a pornographic website. In addition LulzSec released passwords belonging to the administrators of dozens of other adult websites, and highlighted military and government email addresses that had signed up for the xxx-rated services."
I swear (Score:5, Funny)
WeinerGate (Score:5, Informative)
azmeal@cmc.gov.my | ilovedyna
flag@whitehouse.gov | karlmarx
kamarudinalias@mmea.gov.my | 814550
james.ben.hopkins@us.army.mil | j347576
wade.quigley@ang.af.mil | mywife01
aaron.c.sewell@us.army.mil | 3689817
Re:WeinerGate (Score:4, Funny)
flag@whitehouse.gov | karlmarx
I think Andrew Breitbart just had an orgasm.
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flag@white house.gov was for reporting misinformation about the healthcare law. With a password like Karl arc I'm pretty sure this was someone making fun of the president. In fact who has ever used their real email to sign into a porn site. I almost feel bad for the spam email dude@yahoo.com gets on account of me.
Re:WeinerGate (Score:4, Informative)
Why don't you use dude@example.com or nospam@example.org? Almost no sites filter it, and there's no chance of it causing spam for anyone [iana.org].
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Re:WeinerGate (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm finding the Irony of using "mywife" as a password for a porn site quite delectable.
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I wonder if these accounts had to have password verification? If not I would assume many of these are from people that didn't like them.
Re:WeinerGate (Score:4, Interesting)
I feel a profound sense of pity for you, as your post suggests you think an interest in media depicting the rich breadth of sexuality as entertainment and adjunct is unhealthy. But I forgive you, because I presume you were brought up in a social and/or religious environment that has profoundly crippled your sexual nature, as well as skewing your sense of perspective such that you incorrectly think you can infer anything significant about people you don't know, from a password.
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azmeal@cmc.gov.my | ilovedyna
kamarudinalias@mmea.gov.my
I don't think Malay gubmint toadies surfing porn at work is going to be much of a scandal (with or without quotes) in the US. :)
Re:WeinerGate (Score:4, Informative)
CMC & MEA: Malaysian communications and multimedia commission. It is possible that these accounts are for research purposes.
Re:WeinerGate (Score:5, Funny)
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If it's publically known, though, there's no risk of blackmail. "We will tell people that you watch porn!" "Sorry, but everyone knew that already." It'd be like someone threatening to to tell my wife that I am a nerd.
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Also, a violation of General Order #1 over there (The "No Fun" order). Among other things, General Order 1 prohibits booze, porn, and males in female quarters, and females in male quarters. Ostensibly this is to be understanding to the local Muslim population, yet they serve obscene amounts of bacon in the DFACs. Of these, the only one that I have seen religiously enforced is the ban on booze. The males/females in each others quarters is solved by putting cots in the mortar shelters, or other random pla
Sexual blackmail? (Score:3)
What is the purpose of the threat to tell peoples families about the porn they look at?
This is looking like a blackmail mechanism. Similar to "we got ur noods, don't worry we won't show mom and dad"
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And what is there to blackmail about? Porn? Everybody watches it. You tell it like it's something wrong.
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I would say, "They did it for the lulz."
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lulz [urbandictionary.com]
Not exactly a good reason though.
Re:Sexual blackmail? (Score:4, Insightful)
This is looking like a blackmail mechanism.
How so? Blackmail is threatening to expose something unless the victim pays or does something for you. There's no suggestion that is happening. They're simply being published.No payment is being asked for.
Gimme, gimme (Score:2)
Re:Gimme, gimme (Score:5, Informative)
Comment removed (Score:5, Insightful)
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Dumb (Score:3, Interesting)
Who signs up with a government issued email or even real info to a sex site? Who even pays for that? Amazing. So much free stuff to watch who would bother?
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These idiots keep the porn 'industry' in business so we can download new content for free.
Re:Dumb (Score:5, Funny)
#/bin/bash
for I in `cat ~/lulsec_passwords.txt | awk '{print $1}'` ; do
echo "I wanted to personally thank you for paying for porn and thereby funding the creation of the content I download for free. Sincerely P. R. Vert" | sendmail -s "Thank you very much" $I
done
I love you (Score:3)
Could you possibly rewrite that in a copy/pasteable SQL Injection format? My ISP blocks port 25 outbound
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Sex industry is like any business, there should no be so much shame about something instinctive and just human after all. This is just what society put in your head.
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http://articles.boston.com/2011-01-05/news/29335792_1_child-pornography-investigation-pentagon [boston.com]
Customs Enforcement agency handed a list of 5,200 Pentagon employees suspected of viewing child pornography to the Pentagon. They looked into about two-thirds of the names, unearthing roughly 300 who had viewed child pornography on their work or home computers.
1,700 names on the list where not checked.
Porn is now ad-supported. Nobody pays for it. (Score:3)
Really. Just use Google Video search, with SafeSearch turned off. Porn has gone ad-supported, like all other forms of content.
(If only the music industry would figure that out.)
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Forget that, who pays for pron anymore?
Forget that, who pays for anything on the Internet anyway?
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Talk about morons!
Re:Dumb (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, that's what the poster that you quoted said in the sentence immediately after the one you quoted.
lol the guy must have a really short attention span.
Two minds (Score:4, Interesting)
On one hand, I couldn't agree more with one of the posters who said something along the lines the how people make a bog deal out of sex between consenting adults, including the watching of it. The Victorian-esque morality that most aspects of sex are something that people should be ashamed of, including porn, is not something I can relate to.
That said, I have to wonder about the kind of people who would be paying for porn. Even if you are particularly desperate, there's so much free porn on the Internet that it's almost pointless to pay for porn. Plus, if you're that desperate, just how hard is it to pick girls up at a bar (or if you're a geek Don Juan, Craigslist)? Paying for sex in any shape or form has to be one of the silliest things, given how easy it is to find women who are more than willing if you just looked around.
Re:Two minds (Score:5, Funny)
On one hand....
You never told us what you're doing with the other...
Re:Two minds (Score:5, Funny)
There's so much porn on the internet I just sit there shaking my fist.
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Well, there's always the stuff that's kinky enough that you have to pay for any quality material. Not that I can imagine what it would be considering that if you go to any of the many many sites that specialize in porn torrents or streaming porn videos you're pretty much bombarded with "xXx Thai ladyboys and dalmatian golden shower urethral insertion of baseball bat and cactus AT THE SAME TIME!!1"...
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Hey - I seeded that one too ! And they say bittorrent is anonymous :P
Re:Two minds (Score:5, Informative)
It's going to cost, one way or another. The cheapest I ever had cost a draft beer, the most expensive cost me a house, a car, and part of my pension. Granted, that last one lasted 27 years...
But porn? Paying for porn is like paying for kittens.
Re:Two minds (Score:5, Funny)
Paying for porn is like paying for kittens.
How so? And exchange of dollars for a little bit of pussy?
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Even if you are particularly desperate, there's so much free porn on the Internet that it's almost pointless to pay for porn. Plus, if you're that desperate, just how hard is it to pick girls up at a bar (or if you're a geek Don Juan, Craigslist)?
That gets a lot more difficult for most men as they get older. I'm guessing most of the people paying for porn are not in their 20s or 30s.
Re:Two minds (Score:5, Insightful)
"Paying for sex in any shape or form has to be one of the silliest things, given how easy it is to find women who are more than willing if you just looked around."
90% of men are incapable of getting sex for free. At a minimum, they have to pay at least for a few drinks or dinner at a restaurant. Usually multiple times, and with no guarantee of their effort and expenditure resulting in sex. Not to mention the costs of marriage and divorce.
"Plus, if you're that desperate, just how hard is it to pick girls up at a bar (or if you're a geek Don Juan, Craigslist)?"
How hard? This is Slashdot, where understanding quantum cryptography is easier than picking up women at a bar. Random sluts on Craigslist or sex-only online dating sites? ... can you say STDs?
Free sex is often the most expensive kind of sex.
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That's the pure economic cost, but that's not the biggest "cost". Have you ever had a friend that's dating someone who's a complete mismatch? That suddenly has different interests when he's with her, even though it's really out of character? I've seen a lot of strange things come and go because of regular access to pussy. Usually they end when she figures out he doesn't want to be serious with her and never will be.
The ratio of men to women who'd really like just the one night stand is nowhere near 50-50. A
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The best way to prevent STDs other than not having sex is to use a condemn.
That's exactly what all the religious nuts are doing, and you bitch about them to no end!!!
cottaging (Score:2)
Are we talking about George Michael?
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Clearly, you are young and not married.
Re:Two minds (Score:4, Interesting)
You must be in your twenties and project an aura of some financial success (not rich, but not struggling 20-something).
Sex partners weren't impossible to come by when I was in my 20s, but it wasn't always easy, and quite often the girls who were the easiest to get also were the least pleasant to be with.
o Weird self-esteem issues
o More convenient than attractive
o Unbalanced desire/need that usually left me feeling guilty (ie, they always wanted 'more')
I found that that most of the 'desirable' women -- ie, complete package, smart, good-looking, sexually engaged -- when I was in my twenties all were looking for way more than sex and at a minimum expected a relationship with some kind of long-term status, generally marriage, and they really favored people with some sense of financial success (good job/income).
I don't think that changes a ton as you get older. I think there may be some golden age between about 35-50 where women are divorced or decide that they don't want to be married and feel less sexually constrained.
This may be different "now" than it was when I was in my 20s, 25 years ago, but probably not a lot on average.
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The far-right's attack on sexuality goes beyond just advising people of risky behaviors. Their attack is on the very
Pathetic Lamers (Score:5, Insightful)
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It seems to me that these people did it as a slap in the face to all the geeks out there who were cheering them on "for freedom" etc. After all, they do call themselves LulzSec, and humiliating your own fanbase like that is very much "lulz"...
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Script kiddies is probably right. I get the idea that nobody in that club is old enough to drink.
American Puritans... (Score:2)
"LulzSec called on its followers to try the email/password combinations against Facebook, and tell friends and family of the users that they were subscribers to a pornographic website"
I cant believe those hackers are so influenced by american puritanism...
We all like sex. Its the way nature designed us to be able to spread.
My friends dont care if i'm subscribed to a porn site... well i guess bc im not in the US.
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Simple vandals and criminals (Score:5, Insightful)
After they exposed loads of username/password combinations off some Sony service, I thought to myself; who are they actually hurting? It seemed to me they just made it loads easier for criminals without the skills to do this sort of thing themselves.
Yes, it is possible that some more sinister hackers already had this data without telling anyone, just secretly exploiting them, but actually publishing the combinations makes it many times more likely that someone will exploit your personal data.
I consider this hacking group no more than simple vandals and criminals at this stage. There is no "honour" in it, and exposing porn clients are extremely likely to be hypocritical. I don't believe for a second that all members of this hacker group has a "clean conscience" about porn.
Re:Simple vandals and criminals (Score:5, Informative)
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Indeed. Customers need to be hurt A LOT in order to get conscious about security and start demanding it, or start avoiding companies like Sony - more or less forcing everyone to pay more attention into securing their services.
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"Customers need to be hurt A LOT in order to get conscious about security and start demanding it, or start avoiding companies like Sony"
This does in no shape or form excuse actually hurting them. Just because someone has to be the first, doesn't mean the first is any less despicable than the second.
To use the standard lock analogy: just because some unscrupulous lock company sold their customers locks that could be defeated by someone sticking a pin into the lock, doesn't excuse someone breaking into houses
What makes it different is the threat (Score:5, Informative)
They are telling people to go and destroy peoples lives.
Telling them to log into their Facebook accounts and tell their families about their porn habit?
So if a guy or girl is secretly going to gay porn sites, and his or her parents are religious, what kind of damage could that do?
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Remember Jason Fortuny [wikipedia.org]?
Roundly condemned for interfering and casting judgement on others' sex lives. This isn't any different.
Re:What makes it different is the threat (Score:5, Informative)
Ding ding ding! You just figured out what's wrong with 4chan, /b/, Anonymous, etc.
There is no "they" there. Some are do-gooders. Some are do-badders. Some do anything for "lulz", even if it hurts someone. Some are "white-knights".
So while on the one hand "they" fight to expose corporate and governmental corruption, on the other hand "they" are laughing because some naive kid's life just got ruined.
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"exposing such a breach means that pron.com *has* to notify their subscribers in addition to patching the vulnerability,"
Actually, this hacker group has access to a few hacked servers and they have all the personal details of these subscribers. They could just notify the users themselves by means of a mass email. And failing that, they could easily expose the breach without revealing the customers actual passwords.
These people are simply doing this for kicks, not for some noble goal of exposing evil and ins
Oh I agree. But they do it for power. (Score:2)
Since none of us know just how many porn passwords they have cracked, along with Facebook accounts. We do not know whether or not for example some Anon somewhere cracked our most sick perverted teen porn password, and also has our Facebook to tell our family.
Seriously, this sort of stuff can cause suicides. Remember that gay kid who committed suicide over something similar?
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I consider this hacking group no more than simple vandals and criminals at this stage. There is no "honour" in it
Indeed, they admit that they are just in it for the lulz, and don't claim to have an honorable motive.
But there may be unintended benefits if companies actually start to take security seriously and start to actually *budget* for it.
The most popular passwords... (Score:2, Funny)
Surprise surprise:
123456
123456789
12345
1234
12345678
1234567
password
1234567890
123
123123
Re:The most popular passwords... (Score:5, Funny)
I kind of feel for this guy:
uanzmg@fpfzxc.com | tZxHgJNlpRERQEkK
as he clearly put some effort into a difficult password and still got fucked.
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Quite sure he is using some sort of password software, that manages his passwords for him.
Doubt he has to type it all the time.
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And he probably therefore has a different one on every site...
Of course, his email's still out there for all to see, which is embarrassing. But at least he won't be frantically scouring Facebook to get rid of all the stuff 'he' posted :)
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$ whois fpfzxc.com
Whois Server Version 2.0
No match for "FPFZXC.COM".
>>> Last update of whois database: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:06:01 UTC
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Sure -- just that he (as an end user) went to the effort of generating a unique and strong password, and still gets screwed with all the '12345' types. Obviously he can't stop an attack on the site's shit security, just an observation that it double-sucks for him.
To draw a wildly out of proportion analogy (this is Slashdot, after all), it's like watching someone who never smoked die of lung cancer alongside someone who had been smoking for 65 years.
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I kind of feel for this guy:
uanzmg@fpfzxc.com | tZxHgJNlpRERQEkK
as he clearly put some effort into a difficult password and still got fucked.
No he probably didn't, that's why he was on a porn website.
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Not sure what's going on in the mind of the person who used "children" as his/her password.
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670 123456
212 123456789
111 12345
75 1234
72 12345678
65 1234567
62 password
52 1234567890
49 123
41 123123
40 111111
36 000000
Of the 26,000, 18,500 are singletons.
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My favourite password so far is "remember".
That's it. (Score:5, Funny)
Now they've gone too far.
Less known is that (Score:2)
anybody going to that site will get a mandatory free "upgrade" for his system, offered by LulzSec.
Phone numbers? (Score:2)
Looks like a lot of those people use their phone number as their password.
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I seem to have heard this name before...
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Looks like a lot of those people use their phone number as their password.
Where is the 123 dialing code, then? Looks like it would be a good place to start selling Kleenex.
Okay... (Score:5, Funny)
marvelcash@gmail.com | Slashdot69
Anybody owning up to this one?
Re:Okay... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Okay... (Score:4, Insightful)
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That's the funniest thing I've read all morning.. still can't stop laughing.
Security failure on all sides. (Score:2)
Really is it that hard to build some basic security into one's site? I mean like storing the passwords as hash, instead of plaintext? It is just a few bits of code... so simple... but yet again a web site failing on such a basic matter. No wonder they got hacked to boot, and now have all their member's e-mails and passwords out on the street.
I would expect a porn site to care a bit more about their user's privacy, considering the business they're in. Though considering how much some of their users care (us
You did not disappoint me. (Score:3, Funny)
root@host:~# strings pronz.txt |grep -o "[^ ]*$" | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head
671 123456
212 123456789
111 12345
75 1234
72 12345678
65 1234567
62 password
52 1234567890
49 123
41 123123
Stigma (Score:3, Insightful)
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I still don't understand societies taboos about sexually related things.
Its not about society in general. Its about a small fringe group who has some psychological hangup about sex and a penchant for causing trouble until they get their way.
In my community, we had a local TV personality who was involved in the swinging life style. This was well known to those of us within that group and also known to their managers and coworkers, most of whom didn't give a damn. But thanks to continual pressure from the morally conservative nut jobs, this person was let go. As a result of this
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Nah, it mostly has to do with the fear most men have of not being able to get as "deeply seated" as the next or previous guy.
Well, that, and the powerbase the religio-politico types have built by making sexuality forbidden territory.
Will this be the first time... (Score:3, Funny)
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I hope not, what if they can't handle the load?
Re:Who cares who they belong to (Score:5, Funny)
so we can see some pron for free...
You're new to this whole 'internet' thing aren't you?
Re:So what? (Score:5, Insightful)
People watch porn... so what?
Depends. Are they legislators who are campaigning against obscenity on the Internet?
Do we live in the Dark Ages and masturbation is a sin?
A lot of elected representatives in the US would like us to...
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Do we live in the Dark Ages and masturbation is a sin?
A lot of elected representatives in the US would like us to...
It's Americas biggest version of "don't ask, don't tell". A classic is the Utah store owner who proved they were watching tons of PPV porn at the local hotel to get past the Miller test [wikipedia.org]. Politicians simply play the game to win votes, I hardly think they're better than the rest of us. Most of the world - and even the US - have gotten over the whole "sin" to spill the seed, but you still don't talk about it. That's the way it's been from the very beginning, where's little Suzy? Oh, she's furiously frigging he
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Do we live in the Dark Ages and masturbation is a sin?
Depends whether you have a religion, and on which religion if you do.
For many branches of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic cluster, masturbation is definitely considered sinful, and you should resist attempts to leave the Dark Ages. Not sure about the Jain-Buddhist cluster or Shinto, but it was not generally impugned in the Indo-European cluster, of which Hinduism is the major survivor.
Atheists don't have sin, but do classify actions on an ethical scale, and mostly consider masturbation to be harmless or he
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Do we live in the Dark Ages...?/p>
Uhm, yes. We could make a very good argument that we're in or entering another dark age. Education is on the wane while the disparity between wealthy and poor rapidly accelerates toward complete serfdom. The middle class is fast disappearing. Science is riddled with political agenda and strangled by the patent and copyright system, while many "peer reviewed" studies are really just simple corporate propaganda. The public domain (water, minerals, parks, roads, etc.) is being sold off to wealthy private and c
Re:Not funny (Score:5, Interesting)
What are you on about? This could help people who like to masturbate. I'm told that a significant part of the population engages in that activity.
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Why are they going after everything and anything?
Maybe they should blow up some unmarked yellow vans to further obscure whatever their "message" is.
Why are they going after everything and anything?
For the lulz, obviously.
Re:Imagine if Google got hacked similarly .... (Score:4, Funny)
They must have a phemonenal amount of personal info on people based on web search alone, never mind everything else they do.
Some Google engineers must have the ability (if not necessarily permission) to track the porn surfing habits of the vast majority of the world's internet surfers. Think how many powerful people that they could blackmail with this information.
Don't fuck with Google ...
If Anon hacked Google they'd have the dirt to blackmail the entire internet. They'd know who was researching how to kill their husband. They'd know who thinks what and who watches what porn.
This is why your Google password should be at least 100 characters long, random, and impossible to remember.
Obligatory (Score:3)
Disposable email [google.com]