It's a porn company, not a bank or other "respectable" business, so it's possible that they could actually face consequences.

And to counter that, the victims are porn actors/actresses, so the perpetrators probably won't face consequences for it.

I'd like to /s this comment, but I'm not sure I can.

I can chime in one as I was a systems administrator for one of those shady “Get sex tonight” dating websites.

The law of having to hold the identification of the models is pretty much the only law you need to uphold. These sites are created from shills of shells.

You have one company, from there you then have two or three other companies which create white label brands utilising one of the shell companies.

So the brand “bangshelia” would be registered with a shell company “adult dating world”. This brand would then be bought by a shill and branded as “purple dating” but registered by a company called “dating purple”.

You would then affiliate with “adult dating tonight” where they would provide the data for your brand.

To get anywhere near close to chasing the company, you need to launch a lawsuit against the active site, (the company registered to) and then the company behind that and from that the company providing the database. Which all costs money.

As my CEO did, you pack up shop on one of those brands and rebrand yourself. Claim your not associated to the previous company by registering another director.

There are no resources available to attempt to make anything secure. The website of the company I used to work for kept all passwords in plain text in a database that was accessible online publicly for other affiliates to borrow to create their own “brand”.

It took me a couple reads, but do you mean "shell" (as in a shell company that does nothing but exist to protect or obscure the operations of another company) instead of "shill" (a person who markets for someone while hiding that they are associated with them)?

Sorry about that, I’ve rehashed what I wrote and should now make more sense.

It’s shill of shells. The CEO makes one company, another “investor” buys a brand of the original company and registers it in their name and then sells that on.

The Experian settlement pretty well solidified security as a waste of money.