--- title: "Internet-Connected Chastity Cage Reportedly Leaks Detailed Private Info About Users" description: "Bad news for techie kinksters: a company that sold internet-connected chastity cages has exposed itself online. " date: "2023-09-06" modified: "2023-09-06" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/iot-chastity-cage" categories: - "Computing" - "Internet Of Things" - "Robots and Machines" tags: - "internet of things" - "penis" - "privacy" - "the digest" --- # Internet-Connected Chastity Cage Reportedly Leaks Detailed Private Info About Users ![Bad news for techie kinksters: a company that sold internet-connected chastity cages has exposed itself online. ]() *Sliced and stacked purple, organic brinjal, also known as egg plant. Studio shot against a white background. \Image: Getty Images\* ## Cage the Elephant Bad news for high tech kinksters: a company that sold internet-connected cock cages has exposed itself online. According to a security researcher who [spoke to *TechCrunch*]() on condition of anonymity, the Internet of Things sex toy company, which sells chastity cages that can be unlocked online and which also has not been named, suffered massive server flaws that exposed customers' email and home addresses, passwords, and even GPS coordinates — yes, their *physical location*. The researcher told the tech website that they discovered the flaw earlier this summer and attempted to contact the company selling the devices to no avail. Frustrated, they decided to deface the website in an attempt to warn the site and users about the security vulnerabilities. "The site was disabled by a benevolent third party. \[REDACTED\] has left the site wide open, allowing any script kiddie to grab any and all customer information. This includes plaintext passwords and contrary to what \[REDACTED\] has claimed, also shipping addresses. You’re welcome!” the researcher wrote on the site. "If you have paid for a physical unit and now cannot use it, I’m sorry. But there are thousands of people with accounts on here and I could not in good faith leave everything up for grabs." In response, the site took down the warnings less than a day later and restored the page — without bothering to fix the security flaws in question. "Everything’s just too easy to exploit," the researcher and apparent white hat hacker told *TechCrunch*. "And that’s irresponsible." ## Girth Canal Troublingly, this isn't the first time a "smart" cock cage seller has been [subject to security flaw]()s. Back in 2021, a hacker took down another IoT chastity device company and demanded a ransom from its users to relinquish their data — and that company had *also* [been warned]() about the insecurity of its servers prior to the hack, too. "Your cock is mine now," the hacker [wrote in their ransom demand]() to one user, per a security researcher who goes by the extraordinary handle of Smelly. There have also been data breaches with other types of "[smart" sex toys](), and it's hard to say which is more disturbing: that these companies are suffering such massive user data breaches in the first place, or that some of them are ignoring warnings about them and knowingly putting their paying customers at risk. Either way, make sure to look up the tech specs before buying an IoT sex toy. Otherwise, you might not like who's on the other end. **More on dicks:** [*That Millionaire With the Bizarre Health Regimen Is Doing Something Strange to His Genitals*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()