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The porn industry is fighting not to lose the trust of its customers because a recent Internet security
breach may put consumers of online pornography in defense. Those who
over the few months have registered in secret on Web sites with sexual
content may shockingly discover that some of their personal data such
as e-mail addresses may be out in the open now.
Like most of the businesses conducted on the Internet, online porn is
no exception when it comes to relying on the confidentiality it
promises to gain customers and though the mentioned security breach did
not lead to the theft of credit-card information it nevertheless shakes
the confidence in this promise for privacy and could probably affect
the online porn industry severely. Once the customer loses his trust,
gaining it back it’s a pretty hard deal.
John
Albright, the owner of Too Much Media, sees the purpose of this theft
as collecting e-mail addresses for spam. He declared that he took
knowledge of the breach in October and he immediately announced those
customers he knew were compromised. A great deal of adult-oriented
sites uses Too Much Media as a software tracking system.
Keith
Kimmel, an owner of two adult Web sites and who uses the Too Much Media
software believes that the number of the users who may have got their
personal information stolen could reach to "tens of thousands".
However, Albright stated that a precise such number is hard to be
established.
The breach has caused quite a fuss both with those
owing Web sites with pornographic content who have become alarmed about
the consequences the news about the breach will have on the business
and the customers who have learned to their surprise that the skeletons
may not be safe in the closet after all.
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