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Hacker Claims to Have Full Control of Pornhub, Offers Access For $1,000

• motherboard.vice.com

The hacker, who goes by the name Revolver, posted two pictures on his Twitter to prove he had access to Pornhub's server. The alleged breach comes less than a week after Pornhub launched a bug bounty program to encourage friendly hackers to report flaws and vulnerabilities into the site and help get them fixed.

But Revolver didn't seem interested in taking that road.

"I don't report vulnerabilities anymore," Revolver tweeted. "Go underground or go away #FuckBugBounty."

Revolver told me in an online chat that he hates bug bounty programs because in the past he "reported a lot of bugs but got no reply from companies," and he doesn't like to give companies his real name.

The hacker told CSO Online, which first reported the story, that he was able to upload a shell, essentially a control panel he could use to issue any commands on a Pornhub's server. If true, in other words, Revolver had full control over the server. Revolver said he took advantage of a vulnerability in Pornhub's "user profile script that handles image uploads."


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