Luther12
Elder Lister
Take 1:
Tina Bean had been living in her car for two months when she started selling nude photos of herself on OnlyFans.
The 22-year-old had been kicked out of home after a "big fight" and spent most of last summer sleeping in car parks in the heat of Phoenix, Arizona.
Everybody else she knew was making "a hell of a lot of money" on the site. "So, I was like, I might as well just jump on it."
She is one of the million content creators on OnlyFans who share photos and videos with subscribers for a monthly fee. In return, the site takes 20% of their earnings.
Creators can post a range of content from beauty to fitness videos, but it's widely known for pornography.
Soon Tina was making $2,000 (£1,450) a month and able to rent her own flat.
But in January, a hacker seized control of her account, blackmailed her for $150 and uploaded streams of IS terror videos.
The footage, seen and verified by BBC News, depicts people being held hostage in warehouses, or running in fear, before being shot in the head.
"They seemed terrifying," she says. "I kept deleting them and changing my password but kept getting locked out of my account."
The perpetrator then spammed more than 40 of her fans, calling them the N-word, before stealing all of her photos and posting them on a porn site.
Tina says after a tortuous cycle of repeatedly being hacked over a month, she reported this to OnlyFans and temporarily disabled her account. She has now lost nearly all of her subscribers and earns just $100 a week - if she's lucky.
In a statement, OnlyFans said the account did not have two-factor authentication, which made it vulnerable. The company said Tina did not report the racial slur and it was not detected by the site's moderation system because it was pluralised.
It added that this system has now been upgraded and "in light of this particular incident", protocols have been updated to ensure that any hacked account's content is fully reviewed before access is restored.
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Take 2:
Tina Bean had been living in her car for two months when she started selling nude photos of herself on OnlyFans.
The 22-year-old had been kicked out of home after a "big fight" and spent most of last summer sleeping in car parks in the heat of Phoenix, Arizona.
Everybody else she knew was making "a hell of a lot of money" on the site. "So, I was like, I might as well just jump on it."
She is one of the million content creators on OnlyFans who share photos and videos with subscribers for a monthly fee. In return, the site takes 20% of their earnings.
Creators can post a range of content from beauty to fitness videos, but it's widely known for pornography.
Soon Tina was making $2,000 (£1,450) a month and able to rent her own flat.
But in January, a hacker seized control of her account, blackmailed her for $150 and uploaded streams of IS terror videos.
The footage, seen and verified by BBC News, depicts people being held hostage in warehouses, or running in fear, before being shot in the head.
"They seemed terrifying," she says. "I kept deleting them and changing my password but kept getting locked out of my account."
The perpetrator then spammed more than 40 of her fans, calling them the N-word, before stealing all of her photos and posting them on a porn site.
Tina says after a tortuous cycle of repeatedly being hacked over a month, she reported this to OnlyFans and temporarily disabled her account. She has now lost nearly all of her subscribers and earns just $100 a week - if she's lucky.
In a statement, OnlyFans said the account did not have two-factor authentication, which made it vulnerable. The company said Tina did not report the racial slur and it was not detected by the site's moderation system because it was pluralised.
It added that this system has now been upgraded and "in light of this particular incident", protocols have been updated to ensure that any hacked account's content is fully reviewed before access is restored.
Under the skin of OnlyFans
A BBC investigation reveals concerns about how the site, known for porn, is structured and moderated.
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Take 2:
