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Alleged POF Hacker Claims He Was Only Trying To Help

Posted on February 1, 2011

Chris russo plentyoffish hacker FINANCIAL POST – Feb 1 – On Sunday night, Markus Frind, the founder of Plenty of Fish took to his personal blog to write a story about how his site suffered a serious security breach at the hands of a hacker on Jan. 18. The man he alleges hacked into the Plenty of Fish Website is 23-year-old Chris Russo of Argentina. According to Mr. Frind, Mr. Russo co-ordinated a sophisticated two day attack on Plenty of Fish’s servers in an attempt to gain access to user data, which he allegedly then used in an to attempt to extort money from the site’s owners. The site’s technicians were able shut down the security vulnerability within 60 seconds of learning about it, and that the information from about 345 accounts were accessed. However, in an email to the Financial Post, Mr. Russo said that at no time did he attempt to extort money from Mr. Frind. Rather, he contacted Mr. Frind on Jan. 21 to inform him of the vulnerability in the Plenty of Fish site. He claims Plenty Of Fish thanked him and remained in contact with him and that they were “interested in hiring us as security professionals in order to make an analysis of the platform.” FULL ARTICLE @ FINANCIAL POST

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2 thoughts on “Alleged POF Hacker Claims He Was Only Trying To Help”

  1. Unknown's avatar Mark Brooks says:
    February 2, 2011 at 2:53 pm

    Internet dating sites don’t negotiate with terrorists. Markus would never react favorably to such a request. No dating site owner should. Plentyoffish has a skeleton crew customer service and abuse team. Most paid dating sites would have the manpower to react to such an ‘offer of help.’ But actively hacking a site is not the way to get their attention.
    Mark Brooks
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  2. Unknown's avatar Mark Brooks says:
    February 2, 2011 at 2:53 pm

    Internet dating sites don’t negotiate with terrorists. Markus would never react favorably to such a request. No dating site owner should. Plentyoffish has a skeleton crew customer service and abuse team. Most paid dating sites would have the manpower to react to such an ‘offer of help.’ But actively hacking a site is not the way to get their attention.
    Mark Brooks
    OnlinePersonalsWatch
    usa 212-444-1636 / uk 020-8133-1835

    Reply

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