Massive Porn Buyer Info Leak

Anonymous Guy wrote to mention a Wired article that covers the release of information for millions of customers onto the Internet. From the article: "The stolen data, examined by Wired News, includes names, phone numbers, addresses, e-mail addresses and internet IP addresses. Other fields in the compromised databases appear to be logins and passwords, credit-card types and purchase amounts, but credit-card numbers are not included. The breach has broad privacy implications for the victims. Until it was brought low by legal and financial difficulties, iBill was a top credit-card processor for adult entertainment websites."

Time for an Open Porn Movement

[RedHatLinux]

After all, free, as in beer, porn, means never have to worry having identity stolen or saying sorry to wife.

Plus, given the bottoming out production costs, we can easily produce porn of the same quality as closed source porn.

In other news...

[Shadow Wrought]

A sudden surge in the filing of divorces is plaguing thousands of local communities...

Oh crap...

[eln]

They didn't do credit card processing for midget-granny-and-horse-porn.com did they?

I mean, not that it would matter to me if they did...I'm just curious.

No Baby! I swear it wasn't me!

[darth_MALL]

It was the other Chester J. Winthrop-Montague III!

Whew, that was too close

[LunaticTippy]

I'm sure glad I've never paid for internet porn.

Now if they leak the hardon pill database I'm screwed...

Internet IP addresses?

[Anonymous Coward]

Internet IP addresses?
Well, as long as they didn't get their PIN numbers.

Wait a second...

[ENIGMAwastaken]

You can BUY porn? News to me.

This Could Be Quite Damaging!

[Anonymous Coward]

CUSTOMER
--------
Bill O'Reilly
[e-mail]

WEBSITES
--------
falafelpron.com
hotfalafels.com
teenfalafel.com

Well thank God I never pay for porn...

[R2.0]

Wait...did I just type that out loud?

Where do I buy?

[RobertB-DC]

In January of last year, iBill was purchased by Interactive Brand Development for $23.5 million. On Monday, IBD's stock [yahoo.com] closed at 8 cents a share in over-the-counter trading.

8 cents a share? Nowhere to go but up! Time to call my broker*.

At the very least, their certificate will look good on the wall, next to the one from Enron. Maybe really good -- or really bad -- depending on which of their subsidiaries did the artwork. According to the Yahoo Finance link, "IBD also owns a library of original cartoon cel art (including He-Man, She-Ra, and Flash Gordon) [and] a 35% stake in Penthouse publisher Penthouse Media Group."

*Disclaimer: I don't have a broker.

Time for an Open Porn Movement

[AnonymousPrick]

I suggest that the open-porn should be stored on "Freshmeat".

I feel a great disturbance in the Force.....

[8127972]

.....as if millions of computer geeks had cried out, and then became silent.

Know Your Congress

[Doc Ruby]

grep -i 'senator' iBill.dat; grep -i 'representative' iBill.dat ; grep -i 'congress' iBill.dat

Re:Time for an Open Porn Movement

[mano_k]

That would be a gangbang with a massive male majority ...
Argh! Need mental erasor!!!!

Porn Leak

[Anonymous Coward]

I could swear that's the name of some Thai porn star.

So even those who give a f*ck ...

[AHumbleOpinion]

So even those who give a f*ck, who bend over backwards for their customers, who do all that is humanly possible, don't get security right. ;-)

Re:Gullible morons

[Bull999999]

They can lick my balls for all I care.

They might take you upon that offer for their new Computer Geeks Gone Wild series.

Re:Quite Humorous

[SleepyHappyDoc]

"More cost-efficient facilities"? Did they just skip all the steps and set up their headquarters in a federal prison?

Re:"Interesting" headline.

[dr_dank]

That sound you hear is thousands of RSS feed subscribers all scratching their heads.

Is that what furious masturbation sounds like?

News for Nerds...

[jon.wolf]

If ever a story qualified as, "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." -- this is it.

Re:That's what I don't get...

[ettlz]

What kind of moron buys porn?

Same kind of moron who pays cash for some semi-naked woman to dance in front of him!

I mean, you gotta make a chick work for sex!

Re:HAH

[kunakida]

So what I want to know is... how many Sunday Sermon TV jockeys are on the list? Now _there's_ one for Conan O'Brien.

Re:Internet IP addresses?

[Anonymous Coward]

Internet IP addresses?

Yeah, and the biggest downloader of porn on the entire planet seems to be some dork whose address is 192.168.1.100

Re:Weakest Link

[dusik]

>> "But then again, who am I kidding, everyone that meets me just assumes I am into porn. I guess it is my vibe."

It's because you say things like "I use them all the time for 3 day 1.99 trials". ;-)

Re:HAH

[Anonymous Coward]

Turn away from? Dude, I spent a lot of time watching Tracy Lords.

Oh - wait, you said Lord, singular. Sorry, my bad.

IP adresses?

[JThundley]

"The stolen data, examined by Wired News, includes names, phone numbers, addresses, e-mail addresses and internet IP addresses."

So it included the internet internet protocol addresses? I keep my internet IP address next to my PIN number at the ATM machine.

Re:Everyone seems to be forgetting...

[ignavus]

And suddenly the number of people claiming to read LiveJournal climbs through the roof.

"Each copy must be getting read by several thousand people, if that is the case", said the circulation manager of LiveJournal. "Perhaps we should put our membership list on the web next week ... hurry up, folks, you just have time to subscribe right now."

And in the Congress lobby this week, the biggest topic in conversation was "Did you see that article in LiveJournal..? I read it all the time."

Wired is not credible

[Ohreally_factor]

I don't believe this, and I won't be satisfied until I carefully examine the list of logins and passwords to the alleged pr0n sites.

Wait a minute...

[Anonymous Coward]

> Good thing I have a girlfriend.

ALARM!! Intruder at Slashdot!!!