We know a good amount of past guests, friends, and distant acquaintances who use and enjoy a good revenue stream from OnlyFans. And although the site is denying it has been officially hacked, it seems some cybercriminals “purchased, compiled and then illegally hosted content” right after photos of celebrities (Bella Thorne among them) was leaked. A security company called BackChannel claims that a link to a Google Drive folder was shared across a hacker forum. That file supposedly contained content folders from 279 OnlyFan creators, with BackChannel believing the content was initially uploaded last year in October. It is also thought that the file was created by more than one hacker and originally shared from a City College of San Francisco account. OnlyFans released a statement that said, in part, “…content protection is a top priority, and OnlyFans has a dedicated anti-piracy team that provides legal DMCA support to issue takedowns on behalf of the creators’. ‘It is a violation of our Terms of Service to copy, duplicate or record user content, and DMCA law protects creator content being published without proper permissions. This procedure is inclusive of all required notices to move any infringement up to litigation if target websites refuse to comply.” As we see with lots of Internet stealing, the damage is already done well after the hack. We might all well remember the swatch of private celebrity pics stolen then posted a few years back. This included intimate shots shared across the net of people like Scarlett Johansson and Jennifer Lawrence just to name a few. And before that, there was the seemingly epidemic sex videotape leaking (purposeful or not). Even when one thinks they might be safe behind a paywall on a reputed site, one must realize that whatever one posts or puts up digitally in some way is always in danger of being found and shared. It is the way of the world.
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