Name of Entity
Infowars/ Prison Planet TV
Organization Type
Businesses - Other
Address
Austin, TX
United States
Description
"Tens of thousands of subscriber accounts for media company Infowars are being traded in the digital underground.Infowars,
created by famed radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones,
produces radio, documentaries and written pieces. The dumped data
relates to Prison Planet TV, which gives paying subscribers access to a
variety of Infowars content. The data includes email addresses,
usernames, and poorly hashed passwords.The administrator of
breach notification site Databases.Land provided a copy of 100,223
records to Motherboard for verification purposes. Vigilante.PW, another
breach notification service, also has the Infowars dump listed on its
site, and says the data comes from 2014. However, every record appears
to have been included twice in the data, making the actual number of
user accounts closer to 50,000."More Information: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/infowars-accounts-hacked-prison-planet-...
created by famed radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones,
produces radio, documentaries and written pieces. The dumped data
relates to Prison Planet TV, which gives paying subscribers access to a
variety of Infowars content. The data includes email addresses,
usernames, and poorly hashed passwords.The administrator of
breach notification site Databases.Land provided a copy of 100,223
records to Motherboard for verification purposes. Vigilante.PW, another
breach notification service, also has the Infowars dump listed on its
site, and says the data comes from 2014. However, every record appears
to have been included twice in the data, making the actual number of
user accounts closer to 50,000."More Information: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/infowars-accounts-hacked-prison-planet-...
Date of Breach
01/01/2016
Source