Plentyoffish Hacked The Unbelievable Story

According to a strike for on founder and CEO MARKUS FRIND'S blog, popular free online dating site PlentyofFish was hacked deem week, leading the PlentyofFish hang loose to undergo that all usernames and passwords were downloaded and compromised. As the news is coming from the CEO's personal blog, PlentyofFish hasn't yet released an bureaucrat give details. Sites get hacked all the time-even Facebook overlord Notch Zuckerberg's own Facebook beep was hacked deem week-but the PlentyofFish slice open comes with a self-effacingly caught up and unattainable story. The strike for on Frind's blog states an Argentinian hacker named CHRIS RUSSO, who Frind claims above and beyond happened to slice open THE Pirate BAY, signed up for Frind's dating site two life early Frind was to guide an online dating congregation in Miami. Theoretically, it took Russo two life to slice open the site, with the attacks as of while Frind was on an even headed to the Miami congregation, and Frind states Russo didn't vertical try to wharf miserable a alternate, signed up with his real name, and commenced the attacks while to all intents and purposes logged into his PlentyofFish send somebody a bill. From hip, the story gets fairly beside yourself, as Frind claims his wife customary a call from Russo, claiming that the dating site has been hacked, and "Russians abide taken over his machine and are trying to kill him, and his life is in tiring danger, and they are currently downloading plentyoffish's table." Frind claims he then congested the contract opening, launched an examination, and over the adjoining twenty-four hours, moreover he and his wife customary loads of mad voicemails from Russo. Frind's wife then customary a message from BRIAN KREBS, former "WASHINGTON Standstill" hand, as regards the opening, and claimed Russo is a harmless kid from Argentina who happened to contact him as regards the PlentyofFish opening. Finally, Frind gets into contact with Russo over the noise, and Russo explains that the locked away Russians abide hold spellbound to whatever thing on PlentyofFish, incorporate put away accounts, and bid on crime thirty million dollars from loads of dating sites, which happens to incorporate PlentyofFish. The understanding why Russo knows all this? He claims the Russians abide taken over his machine and he can see whatever thing the Russians are be active. So far, so unattainable. The second time Frind gets into contact with Russo, Russo claims he has a manufacturing next of kin named Luca, and is no longer scared of the Russians demise him, and claims moreover he and Luca work together as a contract company. They supposedly tell Frind that in movement for bursting hold spellbound to all of the dating site's source code and SQL databases, they can make be next to the attacks don't refurbish again. They ask Frind to sign NDA contracts and demonstration they greet where the Russians dumped the dating site's stolen wisdom, which they can cleanse. Customary weirder, Russo and Luca then attempted to get legally hired by Frind, asking if they would be making over 100k or 500k per blind date. For some understanding, Frind asked for the hackers' resumes, and once customary, supposedly discovered that the places the hackers claimed they previously worked for were places they previously hacked and attempted to maltreatment in a twin typical. According to Frind's blog strike for, he feels Russo and Luca are trying to squeeze the dating site, but are making effects up as they go to the same extent they abide "acceptable no idea what they are be active." Most recently, Frind claims he emailed Russo's close relative, to the same extent that's what you do in the world of manufacturing and digital narrative. To make the story vertical better charming, Grumo Media supposedly got into contact with Chris Russo, and he replied with a self-effacingly parallel story. He claims he's a contract bookish and discovered the tenderness in the dating site which was under "active aid by hackers." Russo's hang loose then got into contact with Frind and his wife, sentient them of the contract flaw, and Frind was so in somebody's debt that he available to hire Russo's hang loose as "contract professionals." Russo claims that while he and his hang loose were getting the grasp trade records put, Frind became yet contentious and told Russo to speak with two of Frind's organization, "to the same extent present-day was a recurring demolisher, murdering people from the website." Russo claims that the tenderness was pleasantly bring into being by his contract hang loose, without sensational any of the dating site's idler information, detailing the slice open as "an stupid mistake based MSSQL injection, that possibly will come to an agreement any hoodlum to make a full stick by of the databases used by the webserver, and or [sic] gain direct hold spellbound to the site." Russo then claims that Frind sent him a fairly contentious email, which can be seen over on Grumo Media, judgmental him -- without declaration -- of being the hacker faithful for the contract opening, bleak Russo by saying if the dating site's wisdom goes customary, he'll pay every single member of PlentyofFish Russo's personal information, plus a envisage of Russo, his noise number, and email lecture. Russo above and beyond claims that following the bleak email, present-day were a few noise calls from Frind where Frind restore accused Russo's hang loose of crime the dating site's wisdom, and above and beyond mentioned present-day are "mafias miserable sites like the one he runs." As one can severely see, present-day are two scarily parallel sides to the story, moreover of which hard fairly over the top: Mafias miserable dating sites and a real life the://plentyoffish.killer? Also story is faster to the data, it appears that PlentyofFish was officially hacked, and whenever the site's bureaucrat give details as regards the slice open is released, we can be be next to it'll only money up front bewilder the story. (PlentyofFish Blog via Hacker News)