Popular pornographic website, Brazzers has fallen prey to hackers. The cyber attack against this website took place back in 2012, however; the information of approximately 800,000 user accounts was made public only recently.
The hacked information from Brazzers was first spotted by data breach-monitoring site vigilante.pw, which then passed on the information to Motherboard for verification. The attackers apparently gained access through the discussion forum of the website. This is where users usually discuss their favorite scenes and their fantasies among other things.
“This matches an incident which occurred in 2012 with our ‘Brazzersforum,’ which was managed by a third party. The incident occurred because of a vulnerability in the said third party software, the ‘vBulletin’ software, and not Brazzers itself. That being said, users accounts were shared between Brazzers and the ‘Brazzersforum’ which was created for user convenience. That resulted in a small portion of our user accounts being exposed and we took corrective measures in the days following this incident to protect our users,” said a Brazzers spokesperson in a statement.
