Update from Wired: Editor’s note: Since publication of this article, iBill has spoken with Wired News. The company now says that the purportedly stolen database did not originate with iBill, and only three of the more than 17 million entries match past iBill customers. Asked to respond, Secure Science says it no longer believes that iBill was the source of the data. Read the full story.
Wired just posted an article on some outstanding work that Lance James at Secure Science worked on with regard to porn payment processor iBill. We collaborated with him later on the project as well.
From the article:
Seventeen million customers of the online payment service iBill have had their personal information released onto the internet, where it’s been bought and sold in a black market made up of fraud artists and spammers, security experts say.
…Secure Science found that data in February 2005, and reported it to the FBI’s Miami field office, the company says. The FBI declined comment.
Last month, Sunbelt Software found an additional list of slightly over 1 million individual entries labeled Ibill_1m.txt on a spamming website. That list appeared to date from 2003.
Link here.
Alex Eckelberry