The porn extortion scam works like this: you get an email from a stranger claiming that he hacked your computer and recorded video of you masturbating to pornography, which he'll release unless you send him some cryptocurrency. It's not a very convincing pitch, lacking any evidence that the scammer is telling the truth. But thanks to the massive databases of leaked passwords circulating online after massive, multi-million-user breaches, the extortionists behind these scams have an extremely effective convincer: your passwords. The new version of this scam, first spotted in the wild last week, has your stolen username and password from some breached service in the subject line and opens with this: "It seems that, password , is your password. You may not know me and you are probably wondering why you are getting this e mail, right? It's yet more evidence that breach liability is undervalued.
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After high profile takedowns of PBS and Sony, the anarchic hacker group LulzSec now seems determined to maximize its exploits' embarrassment factor. On Friday afternoon the group announced that it had stolen and posted administrative emails and passwords for 55 porn sites, along with another 26, emails and passwords for users of the sex site Pron. Those email addresses can't be used to access users' accounts on Pron. But the posted data violates those users' privacy on a more basic level, exposing them as visitors to the highly not-safe-for-work site.
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An email arrives in your inbox, with one of your old passwords in the Subject line. Your curiosity is piqued, and you click into the message, only to discover that someone has allegedly hacked your webcam and recorded you engaged in some intimate acts, and they are now threatening to send this recording to everyone in your contact list. However, if you send the anonymous blackmailer a few hundred dollars in bitcoins they promise that no one will see the embarrassing footage.