The Real Story Behind The Hacking Of Plentyoffish !
Feb 04, 2011
This story was sent to us by email from Luca Fenochietto himself, in which he tries to get his side of the story out there which may well be the truth. The full story goes like this: The Last Friday 21st January, Christian Russo and his partner Luca Fenochietto discovered a vulnerability in PlentyOfFish exposing users details, including usernames, addresses, phone numbers, real names, email addresses, passwords in plain text, and in most of cases, paypal accounts, of more than 28,000,000 (twenty eight million users). This vulnerability was under active exploitation by hackers. Their team decided to notify Mr. Markus Frind (founder and CEO of PlentyOfFish Inc.) about these circumstances as soon as possible in order to stop any potential damage which could be done, by the exploitation of this vulnerability. The flaw was reported the same night to Annie Kanciar, his wife, who was very thankful with us, and contacted one of their developers in order to inform about this flaw. The vulner