An adult gaming website has been hacked, exposing 411,000 email addresses and other personal information, according to Hunt Troy of Have I Been Pwned. The site hosts High Tail Hall, an interactive puzzle game “where you can have erotic encounters with other characters.”
The breach reportedly occurred in August of this year and in addition to emails, IP addresses, names, orders, and encrypted passwords were also leaked. According to the security and cyber team at HTH Studios, the company behind the website and game, no financial data was leaked.
HTH Studios said on its website and in a screenshot on Twitter that Hunt reached out to the team on Tuesday to inform them of the data breach that occurred over the summer and that information from the breach was released on "a popular hacking forum.".
In a public statement, the company noted that its website had been updated following the breach in October. “We are using a much more advanced and robust security system,” HTH Studios wrote, adding that “we have been in contact with security, developers, legal counsel, and law enforcement.” The company closed its note by asking every user to change their password “to be safe.”
Adult websites and the people who like them are common targets for hackers. A report published by Kaspersky Labs researchers found 27 types of malware that infected about 50,000 computers worldwide from adult websites alone. And in addition to the users who are interested in these types of websites, the websites themselves, like HTH Studios, are often targeted by malicious hackers.
A security breach at xHamster leaked the information of 380,000 users in 2016, and that same year, AdultFriendFinder was hacked (again), exposing 412 million accounts.
