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Tens of Thousands of Infowars Accounts Hacked (vice.com)

Posted by msmash on from the security-breach dept.

Joseph Cox, reporting for Motherboard: Tens of thousands of subscriber accounts for media company Infowars are being traded in the digital underground. Infowars, created by famed radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, produces radio, documentaries and written pieces. The dumped data relates to Prison Planet TV, which gives paying subscribers access to a variety of Infowars content. The data includes email addresses, usernames, and poorly hashed passwords. The administrator of breach notification site Databases. Land provided a copy of 100,223 records to Motherboard for verification purposes. Vigilante.PW, another breach notification service, also has the Infowars dump listed on its site, and says the data comes from 2014. However, every record appears to have been included twice in the data, making the actual number of user accounts closer to 50,000.Motherboard adds that it tested a few of the login credentials and that they worked.

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  1. False flag operation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Probably a false-flag operation to re-direct attention away from Mr. Jones.

    1. Re:False flag operation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

      Don't knock Alex Jones. While he can be bombastic at times, he's mostly on the mark.

      This is more likely an effort to DIScredit him.

      I bought my fluoride filter and radiation pills from his store. Recommended.