A database containing the highly sensitive information on both users and models on the popular adult cam site StripChat were discovered online, left completely unprotected. The data exposure puts models and users at risk of extortion, violence and more.
Volodymyr “Bob” Diachenko, head of security research Comparitech, reported that he discovered the database on an Elasticsearch cluster on Nov. 5. It contained about 200 million Stripchat records, he said, including 65 million user records containing email addresses, IP addresses, the amount in tips they gave to models, a timestamp of when the account was created and the last activity.
It’s unclear if anyone with nefarious purposes managed to access it before it was secured on Nov. 7.
