WASHINGTON - A New Jersey company that helps run thousands of pornography Web sites acknowledged a major security breach Wednesday, sparking widespread concern in the adult-entertainment industry that consumers' personal data could be endangered. According to industry chat boards that have been buzzing about the problem, the violation so far appears to be limited to e-mail addresses, with an avalanche of spam e-mail hitting Web site customers' inboxes - including unique addresses created for joining specific porn sites. John Albright, owner of the Too Much Media Corp., said in a statement Wednesday that no credit-card information was affected by the October incident. Officials with both Visa and MasterCard said they were unaware Wednesday of any problems in connection with the company. "An investigation is under way as to the cause and level of the security breach," Albright said in the statement. "TMM intends to prosecute to the fullest extent possible anyone responsible for any breach of its servers and programs."But many in the adult industry - based heavily in the San Fernando Valley - said the breach could unravel hard-fought attempts to change the longtime perception that the industry is shady."The adult industry has worked for a long time to become an industry that can be trusted with personal information," said Kathee Brewer, former editor of AVN Online, the trade journal of the digital adult-entertainment. Read Full Article...

Modern day slavery - is one of the foremost women's issues of our time. Yet this $10 billion industry, the second largest international crime, affecting approximately 800,000 people, is hardly noticed by the public. Since the majority of the victims are Black and Hispanic girls and women, it is a racial concern as well as a women's and human rights issue. In fact, sex trafficking is the slavery issue of our time. Congress is working toward legislation (H.R. 3887, the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2007) that will end the criminals' exploitation and pimping of women. Many people prefer to think that the problem happens somewhere else, that it does not happen here in the United States. But the sad truth is that it is a thriving commercial enterprise that is happening right under our noses. Several of us who are working in a broad left-right coalition against human trafficking became involved in anti-trafficking work over a decade ago when we first learned about this travesty against human beings. We have been committed abolitionists ever since. We worked on the very first Trafficking Victims Protection Act to get the focus on prosecuting those who commit the terrible crime of human trafficking rather than merely on arresting the victims (who are easily replaced and the crime continues). We worked to get provisions in the 2005 bill to end the demand for prostitutes, which I and my colleagues believe is the driving force behind sex trafficking. Now we are working to get an even better bill to close down the traffickers, protect vulnerable girls and women and restore those who are already caught in the web of criminal sex trafficking networks. The legislation now under consideration on Capitol Hill - H.R. 3887, the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2007 - is a strong bill, but our coalition recommends several critical changes. Let me put three of those changes in the simplest possible language. How to End Sex Slavery

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