This P.O.R.N Company Bought Its Rival Website To Remove Stolen Data

On August 29, Bang Bros, a giant porn production firm, purchased PornWikiLeaks - a malicious wiki forum. The company closed the doxing website down promptly, cleansing it and scorched every single hard drive in which the illegal information was stored.

For those who are unknown, PornWikiLeaks was a website where personal information of more than 15,000 porn performers was revealed illegally, according to Motherboard. It had been received criticism from several actors and actress in the pornographic industry for infringing the privacy by revealing their real names, parent names, telephone numbers, address, pictures of their families, etc. The doxed data here was used to criticize and harass others seriously.

The Internet would be undeniably better and safer when those harassers are disarmed. However, this sudden acquisition and disappearance of Bang Bros remind others that a website can be erased immediately at any time.

On the front page of PornWikiLeaks, people can see an announcement declared by the porn firm Bang Bros stating the rationale for erasing the doxing forum. Mainly here includes stolen information utilizing to endanger and harass porn performers. In the message of Bang Bros, readers will be led to a YouTube link showing what the company had done to the data stored in the hard drives.

According to the statement from Bang Bros:

This story is like a reminder to everyone that the data on the Internet is something easy to be erased. In other words, the Internet, as well as every data stored on it, is so temporary. It might be worrisome, in this situation, however, it could be considered as a huge life-changing relief.