Hackers Expose 26,000 Sex Website Passwords

An anonymous reader writes "Passwords and email addresses of almost 26,000 members of adult website Pron.com have been released on the internet by the notorious hacking group LulzSec. To add to the victims' humiliation, LulzSec called on its followers to try the email/password combinations against Facebook, and tell friends and family of the users that they were subscribers to a pornographic website. In addition LulzSec released passwords belonging to the administrators of dozens of other adult websites, and highlighted military and government email addresses that had signed up for the xxx-rated services."

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Dumb

[Anonymous Coward]

Who signs up with a government issued email or even real info to a sex site? Who even pays for that? Amazing. So much free stuff to watch who would bother?

Two minds

[metlin]

On one hand, I couldn't agree more with one of the posters who said something along the lines the how people make a bog deal out of sex between consenting adults, including the watching of it. The Victorian-esque morality that most aspects of sex are something that people should be ashamed of, including porn, is not something I can relate to.

That said, I have to wonder about the kind of people who would be paying for porn. Even if you are particularly desperate, there's so much free porn on the Internet that it's almost pointless to pay for porn. Plus, if you're that desperate, just how hard is it to pick girls up at a bar (or if you're a geek Don Juan, Craigslist)? Paying for sex in any shape or form has to be one of the silliest things, given how easy it is to find women who are more than willing if you just looked around.

Re:Two minds

[swb]

You must be in your twenties and project an aura of some financial success (not rich, but not struggling 20-something).

Sex partners weren't impossible to come by when I was in my 20s, but it wasn't always easy, and quite often the girls who were the easiest to get also were the least pleasant to be with.

o Weird self-esteem issues
o More convenient than attractive
o Unbalanced desire/need that usually left me feeling guilty (ie, they always wanted 'more')

I found that that most of the 'desirable' women -- ie, complete package, smart, good-looking, sexually engaged -- when I was in my twenties all were looking for way more than sex and at a minimum expected a relationship with some kind of long-term status, generally marriage, and they really favored people with some sense of financial success (good job/income).

I don't think that changes a ton as you get older. I think there may be some golden age between about 35-50 where women are divorced or decide that they don't want to be married and feel less sexually constrained.

This may be different "now" than it was when I was in my 20s, 25 years ago, but probably not a lot on average.

Re:Not funny

[gmhowell]

What are you on about? This could help people who like to masturbate. I'm told that a significant part of the population engages in that activity.

Re:Gimme, gimme

[Anonymous Coward]

Huge bummer, Facebook has already suspended accounts that are on the list. Sooo break straight into their email accounts, and reset FB from there...

Hah, captcha: provoke

Re:WeinerGate

[fyngyrz]

I feel a profound sense of pity for that person. To me, that choice of passwords suggests an unhealthy attachment to pornography.

I feel a profound sense of pity for you, as your post suggests you think an interest in media depicting the rich breadth of sexuality as entertainment and adjunct is unhealthy. But I forgive you, because I presume you were brought up in a social and/or religious environment that has profoundly crippled your sexual nature, as well as skewing your sense of perspective such that you incorrectly think you can infer anything significant about people you don't know, from a password.