A “staggeringly huge” leak of data, including videos, photos and personal information of adult performer from the OnlyFans platform has been reported online.
UPDATE: a response from OnlyFans follows, at bottom.
Buzzfeed reporter Ryan Broderick picked up the story from a thread on Twitter.
Scottish journo Vonny LeClerk reports that she has a copy of the massive image dump.
https://twitter.com/vonny_bravo/status/1233112805643112448
One year ago, The New York Times opined that the sex and porn-friendly site “has put X-rated entertainment in the hands of its entertainers. Call it the paywall of porn.”
Buzzfeed reports:
The leak is organized as a directory, with content listed by the date it was first uploaded to OnlyFans and the names performers use on the site. According to Mega links viewed by BuzzFeed News, the leaks include TikTok stars, Instagram models, and amateur porn stars, all of whom use OnlyFans to make money from producing adult content.
Steve Pym, Head of Marketing at OnlyFans, has now stated:
“We have investigated claims of a site wide hack and found no evidence of any breach of our systems. The content contained in the supposed ‘leak’ seems to be curated from multiple sources, including other social media applications.”
Is that the end of it? Time will tell.
5 Responses
The official response sounds like a smoke screen to pass the buck. No system is safe any more with hackers around.
Just hope no porn star goes home and finds a “fan” in their apartment waiting for them.
Yes, it’s not the “hardest” denial I’ve ever read; not by a longshot.
I have seen “harder” things in porn, that is for sure. My dick is probably “harder” than their denial when I see a cute adult chick with her hands cuffed tightly behind her. 🙂
As per Keni Styles, who works for Onlyfans corporate now: To be clear piracy is not exclusive to OF. Our teams work extremely hard to issue DMCA takedown against all stolen content. This incident is being successfully shut down across multiple target sites in record time. There is NO sensitive admin data at risk and the case is ongoing.
Keni’s forte is clearly not crisis communications. Perhaps they should hire someone who actually specializes in it to compose a coherent, more authentic response.