In case you're wondering why someone would create an account on an adult website, you can ask the US military because emails associated with the department have been found in a hacked xHamster database and are now available for purchase online.
A report from Motherboard reveals that details from 380,000 xHamster accounts are now being sold in the digital underground and include usernames, email addresses and MD5 passwords.
An xHamster allows users of the adult website to upload their own videos, but also to submit comments and create playlists or save videos they want to watch at a later time.
We're not judging, but it turns out that the database also includes messages you wouldn't normally expect to find on such a website, including some related to the US, the UK, or other governments around the world.
According to the aforementioned source, the database is believed to have come from an attack on xHamster earlier this year, but no one knows for sure exactly how the hackers got these details, as the website had stated that no data could be at risk.
The motherboard, however, tried to create new xHamster accounts using 50 emails included in this database and got a message saying that those addresses were already being used for other accounts.
xHamster claims that even these details are traded online, but there is no risk to its users because all passwords are encrypted, so the only information hackers are names and emails. But the source claims that the encrypted passwords are MD5 hashed, meaning it could only take a few seconds to figure out an account's password.
The only good thing is that the details haven't been leaked yet, so the first thing users who were in the database should do is change their passwords.
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