Man Gets D*ck Locked in a Cage by a Hacker

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Man Gets D*ck Locked in a Cage by a Hacker

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This is one of those "truth is stranger than fiction" stories. Consider it a warning against Internet of Things devices, which usually lack proper security.
Sam Summers was sitting at home with his penis wrapped in an internet-connected chastity cage when he got a weird message on the app that connects to the device. Someone told him they had taken control and they wanted around $1,000 in Bitcoin to give control back to Summers.

"Initially, I thought it was my partner doing that," Summers told Motherboard in a phone call. "It sounds silly, but I got a bit excited by it."

But when Summers called his partner, she told him it wasn't her, even after he told her their safe word. That's when he realized he had gotten hacked. His penis was locked in the cage, and he had no way out.

"Oh, sh*t, it's real," Summers said. "I started looking at the thing. There's no manual override at all. It's a chastity belt, I guess it kind of shouldn't [have an override.] But when it's a digital thing like that, it should have a key or something. But it obviously didn't."

"I started freaking out a bit," he added. "I was just panicking at this point."

Summers is one of several people who purchased a chastity cage device called Cellmate and produced by Qiui, a China-based manufacturer. Some of the device's owners got their accounts—and thus their devices as well—hacked at the end of last year, after security researchers warned that the manufacturer left an exposed and vulnerable API, which could allow hackers to take control of the devices.

Scared and a bit desperate, Summers realized he had some Bitcoin stashed in an old account. So he sent the hacker what they wanted, hoping that would be it. But when the hacker got the money, they asked for more, according to Summers.
The story of weirdness continues at https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ad5xp/ ... y-a-hacker
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Because of the cut, Summers and his partner were not able to have sex for over a month, according to him. This incident also made Summers reconsider using internet-connected devices, especially those that go around his most private parts.

I think it's one of those stories we're someone is trying to pull your plonker.
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:wtf: I think this belongs in Asinine..

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I fell for it.

I think the real treasure we all gained from hearing about the original story though was learning that people get off on some really weird sh*t.

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