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.
