Dating Website Leak Leads to Call to Hacker’s Mom [Hackers]

After information on his 30 million members was compromised, Loads of Fish CEO Markus Frind did what any sensible tech executive who cares about his reputation would do: Complain to the mom of the youngster who hacked him.

In a long post on his pesonal blog , the dating site CEO accused a hacker from Argentina named Chris Russo of seeking to extort him via a trove of thousands and thousands of member email address, passwords and names. Russo, in turn, insisted that the hack was actually done by other folks, from Russia. Frind didn’t buy that, since Russo recently made his name hacking into the file-sharing site Pirate Bay. Frind:

[Russo said his group was] a security company. In exchange for complete access to all of our source code and SQL servers they are able to ensure we aren’t attacked again… Additionally they claim they know the locations of where the Russians dumped our data and they will delete it… I just get annoyed and start explaining how I’m going to sue them out of existence if the information comes out… they have got absolutely no idea what they’re doing. At this point I did the sole logical thing; I emailed his mother.

Russo, who gives his side of things here , says he was merely seeking to report a security problem when Frind came unhinged. He also shares an email from a A variety of Fish employee who seems wanting to receive his bid to present security consulting: ” Hi Chris! Just thought I’d follow up on the proposal we discussed, please let me know in the event you’re still sending it ”

The 23 year-old has not, however, yet offered any information on whether he’s in big trouble with mom. It’s hard guilty Frind for trying, though. Security breaches are emotionally fraught events!

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