Someone has leaked terabytes of content stolen from OnlyFans, a subscription site popular among influencers, sex workers, and pornographic actors. Photos and videos of specific users and performers is now out from behind the site’s paywall, meaning content creators are no longer able to profit from their work. And it doesn’t seem like there’s anything they can do.
If you’re unfamiliar with OnlyFans (be honest with me now), it’s a site where viewers can pay a fee to view photos and videos put up by content creators. Ostensibly it would allow the latter to profit from their work, but it’s apparently not safe from being stolen. Those who have viewed the leak report that some of the more explicit videos have names attached, opening up their creators to harassment. According to Buzzfeed, those whose content was stolen include Instagram models and TikTok stars, who use OnlyFans to collect revenue on their images — which they’ll now no longer be able to do now that the images are widely available for free.
OnlyFans itself claims it wasn’t hacked: Steve Pymm, head of marketing told Motherboard, “We have investigated claims of a site wide hack and found no evidence of any breach of our systems. The content contained in the supposed ‘leak’ seems to be curated from multiple sources, including other social media applications.” And the problem is that he isn’t necessarily wrong.
Have the image dump, it’s real I’m afraid. Not everything, but there are names attached to very intimate videos.
— Vonny LeClerc (@vonny_bravo) February 27, 2020
