More than a consumer of adult movies on the internet will not sleep easy tonight.
And is that the data nearly 800,000 recorded in the pornography site users Brazzers have been made public.
email addresses, usernames and passwords were obtained in a computer attack on a forum called Brazzersforum.
That the members of the adult web discuss what their favorite scenes and their actors and actresses favorite .
security expert Troy Hunt told the site Motherboard that this intrusion could reveal private conversations about sexual preferences .
“the problem of a hack like this is the forum, “he said. “Worse than just access credentials to an adult site, this is about what people were talking and fantasizing “.
It is believed that the attack managed to find data penetrating vulnerabilities in vBulletin program, which is used as a platform chat.
Brazzers he said he has taken steps to stop those who try to use the information entry list published measures.
the data hacked were to enter the forum, but it seems that many users entered with the same names and passwords forum to pornography site.
the user information was stolen in 2013, but only now was exposed on the Internet .
the vBulletin program does not it was properly maintained by the forum administrators according to Hunt.
they did not apply the security patches up to date, so they left the site vulnerable to attacks.
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