In the notice, the company accuses r/photobucketplunder of "fuskering," or "fusking," the act of using a piece of software to search through a private Photobucket album based on the likelihood that the photographs follow one of a few common naming systems. The name change would seem to satisfy the copyright component of Photobucket's complaint, and remove the company's main line of attack the other part of the takedown - the accusations of a terms of use violation - is little bit more complicated. The website title of both subreddits is "They should know better." "When you follow them it sends an e-mail to them notifying them they're being followed") and the tone is one of general disregard. As with r/photobucketplunder, the emphasis is on secrecy ("Do not follow the usernames of the girls submitted to this subreddit," reads one of the rules. Many of the community members, apparently collectors, have generously republished dozens of albums of photos taken from the previous subreddit - republished on Imgur, of course, in case the women get wise to the fact that a couple thousand Redditors have access to their nudes and remove them from Photobucket. The community already has 1,800 subscribers and a full page of links. R/photobucketplunder may have gone dark, but a new subreddit made up of the same core community has already sprung up, using the name r/photoplunder in an effort to scrub all references to Photobucket from the site.Įven with a new name, it's business as usual. Have you ever uploaded a nudie shot to Photobucket - one of the web's largest, and oldest,… It was a good run." Ladies: 8,000 Creeps on Reddit Are Sharing the Nude Photos You Posted to Photobucket ![]() Due to a legal request from photobucket, we have gone dark. Moreover, the name and graphics used for your subreddit infringe PBI's registered trademarks." The r/photobucketplunder mods posted a final message: "Gone dark. All other remaining passwords have been expired as well.R/photobucketplunder has "gone dark." After a Gawker article about the Reddit subsection's practice of finding and sharing inadvertently-published, sexually explicit photos on Photobucket, the image-hosting site served a takedown notice: "It has come to PBI's attention that you are violating PBI's Terms of Use. We’d previously detected these attacks and the vast majority of the passwords posted have been expired for some time now. These usernames and passwords were unfortunately stolen from other services and used in attempts to log in to Dropbox accounts. Users in the Reddit thread allegedly confirmed the credentials in the spreadsheet worked at time of writing on multiple accounts listed, however it’s not clear where these credentials actually came from nor how many users were affected.ĭropbox, however, said in a statement to The Next Web that it is not to blame for the leaked passwords and that these were stolen from other, third party services:ĭropbox has not been hacked. To see plenty more, just search on for the term Dropbox hack. ![]() Here is another batch of Hacked Dropbox accounts from the massive hack of 7,000,000 accounts In four Pastebin files linked to from the site, a few hundred username and password pairs were listed in plain text as “teases” for a full leak from an anonymous user, who asked for Bitcoin donations for continued leaks.Ī message annotated at the top of the leaks said: A thread surfaced on Reddit today that contained links to files containing hundreds of usernames and passwords for Dropbox accounts in plain text, but it’s unclear where they were obtained from.
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