Web users who signed up to a
Paris Hilton
exposé website may be in trouble after poor web design left their credit
card information exposed.
Parisexposed.com
was set up by internet entrepreneur Bardia Persa after he bought a container
of Hilton's personal possessions at an auction. The container came up for sale
after the heiress forgot to pay a $208 storage bill.
The site claims to include Hilton memorabilia such as videos of her having
sex, allegedly snorting cocaine off a man's chest and allegedly making racist
and homophobic remarks.
Persa also claims to have more mundane items like childhood photos and
prescriptions for herpes medication. Online access is being sold for $19.97 a
month.
But an
investigation
by
The
Smoking Gun website said that by changing a few characters on the web page
URL it was possible to see the subscriber's name, email address, password, phone
number, mailing address and credit card number.
The fault was repaired after the investigators sent a message to the site's
owner.
Listed among the 750 subscribers were viewers from 28 countries around the
world, including the son of a famous US television news personality.
The website was taken down by a court order in February but was back up in
defiance of the ruling after Hilton was
jailed
for driving offences.
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