Porn Billing Leak Exposes Buyers

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Hey! Here's an interesting data privacy breach!  :-)

Via Wired News.

[snip]

Seventeen million customers of the online payment service iBill have had their personal information released onto the 
internet, where it's been bought and sold in a black market made up of fraud artists and spammers, security experts say.

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 -- providing billing services for 
such outlets as DominaBDSM and Top-Nude.com.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70356-0.html

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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