Hack Sees 800,000 Brazzers Porn Site Accounts Released

The names of almost 800,000 registered users of porn site Brazzers have been exposed in a data breach…Kind of.

The exposed user data actually originated from a separate forum associated with the Brazzers website, but Brazzers users who never signed up to the forum may unfortunately also have had their details dumped on the net.

News website Motherboard who broke the story said details of the mass data dump was given to it by Vigilante.pw, a well-respected industry website that monitors online data breaches.

“Motherboard was provided the dataset by breach monitoring site Vigilante.pw for verification purposes. The data contains 790,724 unique email addresses, and also includes usernames and plaintext passwords. (The set has 928,072 entries in all, but many are duplicates.)”

The exposed user information appears to have mostly come from 2012 or 2013, includes email addresses, user names and passwords, but crucially doesn’t appear to have been encrypted.

Brazzers public relations manager Matt Stevens said in an email:

“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…Note that the data provided contains many duplicates and non-functional accounts. We banned all non-active accounts in that list in case those usernames and passwords are re-used in the future…Brazzers takes the privacy and safety of its users very seriously,”

As of Tuesday afternoon the Brazzers forum was unavailable to users and anyone visiting the site for *ahem* more information were informed by a web page that the it was “currently under construction.”