{"id":178456,"date":"2016-09-05T16:43:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T14:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=178456"},"modified":"2016-09-05T16:48:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T14:48:40","slug":"porn-site-forums-hacked-user-details-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/178456-porn-site-forums-hacked-user-details-exposed.html","title":{"rendered":"Porn site forums hacked, user details exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Close to 800,000 unique email addresses, usernames, and plain text passwords have been exposed after the Brazzers forum was hacked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/nearly-800000-brazzers-porn-site-accounts-exposed-in-forum-hack\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Motherboard reported<\/strong><\/a> that although \u201cthe data originated from the company&#8217;s separate forum, Brazzers users who never signed up to the forum may also find their details included in the dump\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Brazzers told Motherboard that the latest incident matches an incident which occurred in 2012 with the Brazzers forum, which was managed by a third party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incident occurred because of a vulnerability in the said third-party software, vBulletin, and not Brazzers itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time of publishing, the Brazzers forums were down &#8211; with the message \u201cBrazzers Forum is currently under construction\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More security news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/177089-free-opera-vpn-comes-to-android.html\"><strong>Free Opera VPN comes to Android<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/173888-netflix-blocking-vpns-subscriber-growth-slows-and-share-price-tumbles.html\"><strong>Netflix blocking VPNs \u2013 subscriber growth slows and share price tumbles<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/162726-unlimited-free-vpn-built-into-the-opera-browser.html\"><strong>Unlimited free VPN built into the Opera browser<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close to 800,000 unique email addresses, usernames, and plain text passwords have been exposed in a porn site forum hack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":178458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,8817,38828,33755],"class_list":["post-178456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-brazzers","tag-forum-hack","tag-vbulletin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178464,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178456\/revisions\/178464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}