Urban Massage Data Breach Exposed Sensitive Comments On Its Creepy Clients (techcrunch.com) 38
An anonymous reader shares a report from TechCrunch: Urban Massage, a popular massage startup that bills itself as providing "wellness that comes to you," has leaked its entire customer database. The London, U.K.-based startup -- now known as just Urban -- left its Google-hosted ElasticSearch database online without a password, allowing anyone to read hundreds of thousands of customer and staff records. Anyone who knew where to look could access, edit or delete the database. It's not known how long the database was exposed or if anyone else had accessed or obtained the database before it was pulled. It's believed that the database was exposed for at least a few weeks.
Urban pulled the database offline after TechCrunch reached out. Among the records included thousands of complaints from workers about their clients. The records included specific complaints -- from account blocks for fraudulent behavior, abuse of the referral system and persistent cancelers. But, many records also included allegations of sexual misconduct by clients -- such as asking for "massage in genital area" and requesting "sexual services from therapist." Others were marked as "dangerous," while others were blocked due to "police enquiries." Each complaint included a customer's personally identifiable information -- including their name, address and postcode and phone number.
Urban pulled the database offline after TechCrunch reached out. Among the records included thousands of complaints from workers about their clients. The records included specific complaints -- from account blocks for fraudulent behavior, abuse of the referral system and persistent cancelers. But, many records also included allegations of sexual misconduct by clients -- such as asking for "massage in genital area" and requesting "sexual services from therapist." Others were marked as "dangerous," while others were blocked due to "police enquiries." Each complaint included a customer's personally identifiable information -- including their name, address and postcode and phone number.
Brave new world. (Score:3, Funny)
Happy ending? Unlikely.
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Indeed, now we have GDPR the fine they can face could be pretty substantial. This kind of breech will be taken extremely seriously.
Never mind (Score:1)
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Udder Lubrication Authority, the magazine for authoritarian dairymen.
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Don't laugh. If it wasn't for the ULA's newsletter I would not have discovered the almost magical healing properties of Bag Balm.
Come on (Score:1)
Where's the list of clients who asked for sexual favours?
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Right here [youtube.com].
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The majority of Slashdot.
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C'mon, the majority response, just access some pron (free porn, it ain't no fun if you pay for it ;DDD) and masturbate, why screw around with all the hassle, now that is becoming the majority response. The cheer leaders wail of where are all the rich nerds willing to put up with the drama and ego of pretty empty heads (oh so accurate in both interpretations, missing comma), is answered by silence and hiding nerds with the occasional mocking and trolling, living in the homes they bought with salaries from pr
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"Ugly broke elderly male pushes weird sexual agenda online, news at 11"
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Excuse me? (Score:2)
You named your business "urban massage", what do you expect? It's like naming your cookware store "Stoner's Pot Palace" and wonder why this [youtube.com] happens.
Not new (Score:2)
ICQ had a mode that did the same thing 20 years ago.
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The article referred to "comments-on-its-creepy-clients", so I guess it is the "creepy" ones that got the comments. Clients who just wanted a "straight" massage (whatever that is) were considered non-creepy so got no comments, just their names and addresses published. I'm speculating.
Personally I can't see what is "creepy" about wanting to touch or shag an attractive woman. It might be against etiquette to try it, or scary for the woman, depending on circumstances, but not "creepy" which I associate with h
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They wanted a fucking massage
Did you mean literally fucking, or was that just for metaphorical emphasis?
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What the fuck is "creepy" about the clients? They wanted a fucking massage. What's "creepy" about that? Hey, it's not for me, but, if someone gets satisfaction from having someone else massage their body, what is "creepy" about that?
Fucking goddamn femi-sjw-maga-fagas! Fuck off! Take your "creepy" and fucking kill yourself you worthless goddamn pieces of shit!
If you're a genuine sports/health masseur, then someone asking you if you can wank them off for an extra tenner is about as creepy as if you were a plumber or bookkeeper and your client asked the same.