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Got an internet-enabled chastity device? Check your online security now.

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If you’re into chastity play, you might own an internet-enabled chastity device designed to share your kink with your partner. And you also might want to change your password.

TechCrunch reports that several flaws in an unnamed smart sex toy manufacturer’s servers have exposed over 10,000 of its users’ personal data, including information which can be used to identify them. This includes email addresses, plaintext passwords, home addresses, IP addresses, PayPal logs, and even GPS coordinates.

Unfortunately, there’s no quick and easy way of knowing whether you’ve been impacted. The company has not been publicly identified in order to protect its customers, as the vulnerability has not yet been fixed.

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However, TechCrunch has confirmed that the company makes chastity devices for penises, which can be controlled by a partner using an Android app and an internet connection. Said partner can also track the person wearing the device via GPS. 

Chastity devices, such as harnesses, cages, and straps, form part of chastity play, a kink which involves one partner using a device to prevent themselves from becoming fully aroused. The idea is that once the person is freed from the device, they’ll be able to unleash their full desire.

If you own an internet-enabled chastity device, it might be time for an internet security checkup — and perhaps some consideration to the idea of deleting any unused accounts. Even if you do change your sex toy’s password, your new one could be just as exposed if the server flaw isn’t addressed.

And if you indulge in the cardinal security sin of reusing passwords, you should definitely change any that share the same one as your chastity device.

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According to the publisher, the vulnerability was first detected by an anonymous security researcher, who told TechCrunch they reached out to notify the sex toy company on July 17. Then, when they did not receive any response, the researcher reportedly vandalised the company’s website to leave a warning to users on Aug. 23.

“[COMPANY] has left the site wide open, allowing any script kiddie to grab any and…

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The Evolution of Ransomwares (Hackers Now Target Internet Connected Chastity Belts, USTD’s Warning Against Ransom Payments and Legal Issues Victims Should Consider)

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“Ransomware is unique among cybercrime because in order for the attack to be successful, it requires the victim to become a willing accomplice after the fact”

– James Scott

Ransomware, What Am I?

Ransomwares are malicious software that blocks access of users from their own devices with a view to extort payment from their intended victims. Ransomware made its first debut as early as the 1980s when a number of computers used by participants of the 1989 World Health Organization’s AIDS conference became infected by a lockout virus.

Into 2000s – The Age of Extortion

By the turn of the century, the proliferation of the internet amplified the spread of ransomware. During this era, ransomware took the form of pop-ups with catastrophic error message instructing end users to download certain software (which turns out to be the trojan virus) in order to fix a problem. Users were inadvertently tricked into downloading the real virus when they click the ‘Fix Now’ button that usually accompanies/ed such pop-up messages.

Overtime, as ransomware attacks evolved and became more sophisticated, so did their ability to harm day to day lives of their victims. With more and more parts of our human existence having been digitized since the 1980s, massive ransomware attacks the likes of WannaCry is believed to have caused no less than US$4 Billion worth of economic losses to its victims.

2020: Ransomware Locks Internet Connected Chastity Belts

The lockdown of computers (which may cause inconvenience) is nothing compared to the lockdown/losing control over one’s own body.

Such fears were materialized recently when users of internet-connected chastity belts found themselves in an uncomfortable situation as hackers found a way to exploit the chastity belt’s application programming interface (“API”) and locked out the users from control over their devices. Such attacks are frightening as some users are reported to have been wearing such device at the time of the hack.

Once control over the device by a hacker is established, it was reported that users would receive a ransom message demanding payment of 0.02 Bitcoins (around US$750 at the time), failing which the chastity belt (if being…

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Hackers are locking dicks in chastity cages, and it’s got security experts worried – Hack

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Imagine your phone buzzing. It’s a whatsapp from a number you don’t know.

Ok, weird, probably a scammer, but you take a look.

It’s a stranger, demanding one thousand dollars in bitcoin to release your dick from a hardened steel cage.

It sounds like something out of Black Mirror, but it is very real.

And it is prompting some in the adult industry to call for better safety standards from manufacturers, arguing they are putting people’s bodies at risk.

Want to lock your penis in a cage? There’s an app for that.

Chastity cages are not super mainstream sex toys, but they are pretty common in the BDSM community.

They largely do what they promise – lock your penis in a cage, to prevent you masturbating, having sex, or even getting a full erection.

Like a lot of other sex toys, they are going online.

The ‘Cellmate’ does not rely on an old-fashioned padlock and key, but rather uses an electronic key – meaning the wearer can hand control to anyone, anywhere, through an app.

It recently attracted attention after it was revealed hackers were able to gain access to people’s devices through the app, and lock them.

They were contacting users, and demanding a ransom of around A$1000 in bitcoin.

Terrifyingly, the device doesn’t have any kind of emergency release mechanism. Which led to reports of some people trying to use bolt cutters to get it off.

But thankfully, it seems a lot of the people hacked were not wearing the device at the time it was hacked and locked.

The manufacturer, Qiui, published a video demonstrating how to unlock the device with a screwdriver.

The company told Hack that they’ve updated the security features in version 3.0 of the app.

‘I like to be the boss in the bedroom, not the hacker’

Internet-connected sex toys are not new. In fact, they are really popular – and a global pandemic has helped them boom.

They range from simple toys like vibrators that can be remotely controlled online, to more intense toys like the Cellmate.

With many…

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Hacker Seizes Control of Internet-Enabled Chastity Cages

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News Highlights: Hacker Seizes Control of Internet-Enabled Chastity Cages.

All your base

In perhaps the most chilling example of why your household items probably don’t need a connection to the internet, we bring you the news that a hacker took control of internet-connected chastity devices and demanded a Bitcoin ransom before releasing his hostages. .

But first, let’s take a few steps back. A chastity device is, simply put, a penile cage that is a popular accessory within the BDSM community. And as Motherboard reports, the good folks at the Chinese manufacturer Qiui decided to create a model called Cellmate that will be locked and unlocked through an app. And then a hack once again underscored how the Internet of Things often suffers from horrible cyber security.

“Your dick is mine now,” the hacker reportedly told one of the victims.

Cage Match

Fortunately, the hacker seems to have picked the wrong time to strike – victims of the cyber attack who spoke to Motherboard said they weren’t actually wearing their Cellmate cages when the …

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