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A hacker is selling claimed command injection and shell access to adult mega site Pornhub. The hacker (@1x0123) is asking for US$1000 for the unverified access which, if used, could compromise portions of the site's 60 million daily visitors. They say PornHub has a vulnerability in its user profile script responsible for …

  1. psychonaut

    Who'd a thought it....someone doing penetration testing on pornhub

    1. Stuart Elliott

      Penetration

      Probably went in the back door..

      1. Martin Summers Silver badge

        Re: Penetration

        Yeah but we now know it was just a crapshoot

      2. Stuart Elliott

        Re: Penetration

        "3 thumbs up" - says it all really...

    2. james 68

      One has to wonder just how many Virii the poor hacker now has to deal with, hope he used decent protection.

    3. Mark 85

      A dark and dirty job, but someone has to do it.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    perverted pngs pwn porn provider

    If not imagetragick, pornhub is certainly goatse-wide open to every imaginable zero-day in its image/video uploading and transcoding pipeline.

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