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Porn Star HIV Test Database Leaked
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:04:53 -0500 (CDT)
http://gawker.com/#!5787392 Porn Star HIV Test Database Leaked Adrian Chen - Porn Star HIV Test Database LeakedThe patient database of the private health clinic that conducts STD tests for California's porn industry has been breached, exposing test results and personal details about thousands of current and former porn performers, some of which have been published on a Wikileaks-style website. Earlier this year, a website called Porn Wikileaks posted a list of what it claimed were the real names of more than 15,000 current and former porn performers, alongside their stage names and date of birth. This essentially "outed" them to any passing Googler, which caused an uproar in the industry since many porn performers try to keep their real name secret, for obvious reasons. That 15,000 names were on the list was significant, especially considering only about 1,200-1,500 performers are currently working in California's Porn Valley. It turns out that many of the names came from a database belonging to the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation (AIM), which conducts the majority of STD tests for the porn industry. (Working straight performers get tested at least once every 28 days.) The porn gossip blogger Mike South was the first to report the breach after he was contacted by a number of porn performers who said the information posted about them on Porn Wikileaks must have come from AIM's database. Their proof: They had only used the stage names that were posted on Porn Wikileaks once, when registering for testing at AIM. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Learn encryption strategies that manage risk and shore up compliance. Download Article 1 of CREDANT Technologies' The Essentials Series: Endpoint Data Encryption That Actually Works http://credant.com/campaigns/realtime2/gap-LP1/
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