Adrian Chen - Porn Star HIV Test Database LeakedThe patient database of
the private health clinic that conducts STD tests for California's porn
industry has been breached, exposing test results and personal details
about thousands of current and former porn performers, some of which have
been published on a Wikileaks-style website.
Earlier this year, a website called Porn Wikileaks posted a list of what
it claimed were the real names of more than 15,000 current and former porn
performers, alongside their stage names and date of birth. This
essentially "outed" them to any passing Googler, which caused an uproar in
the industry since many porn performers try to keep their real name
secret, for obvious reasons. That 15,000 names were on the list was
significant, especially considering only about 1,200-1,500 performers are
currently working in California's Porn Valley.
It turns out that many of the names came from a database belonging to the
Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation (AIM), which conducts the
majority of STD tests for the porn industry. (Working straight performers
get tested at least once every 28 days.) The porn gossip blogger Mike
South was the first to report the breach after he was contacted by a
number of porn performers who said the information posted about them on
Porn Wikileaks must have come from AIM's database. Their proof: They had
only used the stage names that were posted on Porn Wikileaks once, when
registering for testing at AIM.
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