Over 412 million Adult Friend Finder and Penthouse accounts hacked in recent data breaches. The attack is one of the largest leaks of online data ever. It targets the Adult Friend Finder network, which runs various cam sites, porn sites and used to own Penthouse. Other news includes MVP Von Miller’s sextape scandal and Canada’s repeal on Anal sex law.
The recent breach for the Adult Friend Finder Network, which happened this October, isn’t the first time the site has been attacked. Back in 2015 the site had 4 million accounts hacked in a similar breach. This time however the number of accounts whose information was leaked the number hits over 412 million, dwarfing the 33 million hacked in the recent Ashley Madison hacks.
To put the hack into perspective, only one other hack is known to have taken more info and that is the 2014 breach of Yahoo in which over 500 million accounts were compromised. Unlike Yahoo however Adult Friend Finder operates “one of the world’s largest sex hookup” sites.
Those affected by the hack include 78,301 US military email addresses, 5,650 US government email addresses and over 96m Hotmail accounts. There were also the details of 16 million accounts which were shown to have been previously “deleted” by their users.
Penthouse.com was sold to Penthouse Global Media in February. The Adult Friend Finder Network should not have details of the accounts registered to the website. Penthouse Chief executive Kelly Holland emailed zdnet.com on Sunday commenting,
“We are aware of the data hack and we are waiting on FriendFinder to give us a detailed account of the scope of the breach and their remedial actions in regard to our data.”
Passwords were stored by Friend Finder Networks either in plain visible format or SHA1 hashed (peppered). Over 99% of all the passwords, including those hashed with SHA-1, were cracked by Leaked Source. This shows how unsafely the account information was stored.
MVP Von Miller blackmailed over sextape
Super Bowl MVP Von Miller is being told unless he pays $2.5million, Elizabeth Ruiz will release their sextape. Elizabeth Ruiz is an Instagram model. She’s featured in music videos by Snoop Dog as well as by Niki Minaj.
The Instagram model has over 300,000 followers. She appeared today on The Trend Talk Show to talk about her as yet unleaked sextape.
Von Miller has hired lawyers to fight her in court against the release of the sextape. He also has a restraining order against her. It’s unclear if he will file charges against extortion, or if he will sue her for slander. However experts say that if the model release the sextapes, things will not go well for her.
Following the Hulk Hogan sextape scandal in which Hogan won in court against Gawker, it’s probably likely that courts will favour Von Miller. The issue here is about consent because it’s clear that Von Miller does not consent to the tape being released.
Media outlets and social media users have compared Elizabeth Ruiz to Kim Kardashian. The model has faced a ton of backlash and hate as people have been commenting on her Instagram post, as well as twitter.
Further more comments on her Instagram account have called her “Ugly”, “Snake”, and one even commented “Trump is going to deport you!” in reference to her Cuban background.
Canada’s anal sex ban to be repealed
Canada’s section 159 of the criminal code is described as discriminatory. It bans anal sex for anyone under the age of 18, or if there are more than two people taking part. The age of consent for vaginal sex and oral sex in Canada is only 16.
Several different courts have ruled the law to be unconstitutional in the past three decades, and it has now been decided that the law will be repealed. This comes after the fact police have been proved to still actively enforce the law, especially relevent because it’s often used against members of the LGBT community.
“All of our laws must be modernised so they no longer discriminate against LGBTQ people.” says Dr Kristopher Wells, the faculty director of the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies at the University of Alberta.
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