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

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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Tested?

[_KiTA_]

Motherboard adds that it tested a few of the login credentials and that they worked.

I'm no fan of Infowars (although his trolling of The Young Turks was hilarious) but I'm really really hesitant to say this is kosher. Didn't they just break several laws about unauthorized access?

Re:If you swim, expect to get wet

[narcc]

No, no they do not.

People don't deserve punishment for not being as intelligent as you or for believing the wrong things.

I can't even being to imagine the kinds of horrors you could justify with that sort of moral philosophy.

Re:Seriously?

[Anonymous Coward]

Donald Trump won the nomination of a major political party, so yes, it's pretty obvious there are a lot of fucking nutters out there.