17 million iBill customers compromised...

...and, no, not all of them bought porn.

Here's the story at Wired News. iBill was compromised by hackers, or an insider sold information to some scammers, but this is terrible.

I'm furious about this for three reasons: (1) I briefly played this online game a few years ago, and they used iBill for their subscription service. So I'm one of the victims of this scam; my personal email address and who knows what else has been compromised. (2) Everyone who has covered this story, including Wired News and BoingBoing, has focused on the fact that iBill handled financial transactions for pornography sites. But I and thousands of people who played Horizons never bought pornography online. (3) I was stupid to use an email address I cared about when I subscribed to that game. Apparently, there is zero room for error with this kind of thing; the one email account I have thus-far kept spam-free is shot.

I'm not a lawsuit kind of person, but this screams class action.