A "white hat hacker" -- someone who feels they are hacking for the greater good -- has gotten his hands on the personal information of almost 30,000 members from at least two gay porn websites.

 

He claimed that much of the information was naturally exposed, and that he was able to gather the rest through vulnerabilities on the two sites, Blurred Media LLC owned GayHoopla.com and HotGuysFuck.com. The data included email addresses, user names, plain text passwords, and IP addresses. 

 

“When I alerted the sites of their massive security issues, the owners just ignored me. I thought they would take it more seriously if I showed them the data. Unfortunately, that didn't work either; they just sent me weird threats,” the hacker, who used the handle GP Whitehat, revealed.

 

"This individual has refused to identify himself to us or discuss how or even why he has attacked us," a GayHoopla spokesman said. “With our security consultant, we believe we have secured the systems attacked for the immediate term, and we are migrating to a new install and structure ASAP to avoid a repeat of this.”

 

The rep also insisted that GP Whitehat had less than honorable intentions with the information, and suggested he may be a former freelance programmer that the company had sued.

 

“This individual has refused to identify himself to us or discuss how or even why he has attacked us. He has admitted to stealing our private property, has issued threats against us personally and our business, has vandalized a part of the website, and has used the stolen property in an attempt to damage our business,” the representative continued.

 

“I am categorically not a former employee, associate or contractor of the site nor do I know any,” GP Whitehat wrote. He also promised that the information he had would never be publicly shared or sold.

 

Life was so much simpler back in the days of XXX VHS tapes and porn magazines under the mattress, when we were more concerned about snoopy parents than hackers.