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OnlyFans Is Banning Porn…. The Thing That Made OnlyFans Big…. And They Will Be Doomed As A Result

Posted in Commentary with tags on August 20, 2021 by itnerd

OnlyFans has announce that it is banning porn. This is to protect its partnerships with banks and payment providers who are gun-shy about dealing with porn companies, or companies perceived to be porn companies. And it’s also meant to get over the fact that OnlyFans is struggling to raise new funding as investors are understandably gun-shy about investing in porn.

The platform will still allow creators to post nude photos and videos, but not any “sexually explicit conduct.” The change goes into effect starting in October.

Here’s the thing. Now that this announcement is out there, creators on OnlyFans will flee the platform en masse. I say that because we saw this happen with Tumblr which was worth a lot of money because of porn. They were then sold by Yahoo to Verizon for a pile of money, who then banned porn. As a result of that people abandoned the platform and it was eventually sold to Automatic who paid cents on the dollar for what was left of it. Which wasn’t a lot.

So OnlyFans might be hoping that this plays out differently. But to be honest, I can’t see it. I think that OnlyFans is doomed. And they themselves will be responsible for their own demise.

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AT&T Appears To Have Been Pwned…. 70 Million Customers May Have Been Affected

Posted in Commentary with tags , on August 20, 2021 by itnerd

Restore Privacy is breaking the news that AT&T has been pwned by hackers. Personal data from 70 million customers:

Hot on the heels of a massive data breach with T Mobile earlier this week, AT&T now appears to be in the spotlight. A well-known threat actor in the underground hacking scene is claiming to have private data from 70 million AT&T customers. The threat actor goes by the name of ShinyHunters and was also behind other previous exploits that affected Microsoft, Tokopedia, Pixlr, Mashable, Minted, and more.

And:

In the original post that we discovered on a hacker forum, the user posted a small sample of the data. We examined the sample and it appears to be authentic based on available public records. Additionally, the user who posted it has a history of major data breaches and exploits. 

While we cannot yet confirm the data is from AT&T customers, everything we examined appears to be valid. Here is the data that is available in this leak:

  • Name
  • Phone number
  • Physical address
  • Email address
  • Social security number
  • Date of birth

And what’s worse is that the hacker is working on decrypting data that he believes comprises user accounts’ PINs.

As for AT&T, they had this to say:

Based on our investigation today, the information that appeared in an internet chat room does not appear to have come from our systems.

There’s a problem with this statement. The claim that this was posted in an “internet chat room” is categorically false. The place where it was posted is well known for verified exploits and data dumps. Then there’s this from the guy who appears to have pwned AT&T:

It doesn’t surprise me
I think they will keep denying until I leak everything

I think AT&T may be joining T-Mobile in being in deep trouble. Let’s see how this plays out.

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T-Mobile Discovers That Their Pwnage Issues Are Worse Than They Thought

Posted in Commentary with tags , on August 20, 2021 by itnerd

This morning, T-Mobile has shared its latest discoveries as it continues its investigation into the hack that resulted in information on almost 50 million people has been leaked. The new information indicates that 5.3 million more current postpaid customer accounts that were compromised:

We previously reported information from approximately 7.8 million current T-Mobile postpaid customer accounts that included first and last names, date of birth, SSN, and driver’s license/ID information was compromised. We have now also determined that phone numbers, as well as IMEI and IMSI information, the typical identifier numbers associated with a mobile phone, were also compromised. Additionally, we have since identified another 5.3 million current postpaid customer accounts that had one or more associated customer names, addresses, date of births, phone numbers, IMEIs and IMSIs illegally accessed. These additional accounts did not have any SSNs or driver’s license/ID information compromised.

And that’s not all:

We also previously reported that data files with information from about 40 million former or prospective T-Mobile customers, including first and last names, date of birth, SSN, and driver’s license/ID information, were compromised. We have since identified an additional 667,000 accounts of former T- Mobile customers that were accessed with customer names, phone numbers, addresses and dates of birth compromised. These additional accounts did not have any SSNs or driver’s license/ID information compromised.

I have the sneaking suspicion that more details are going to leak out that will bring this number to the 100 million that was previously reported. And that won’t be a good look for T-Mobile.

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