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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, #, 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."
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.
Summers and his partner started brainstorming ways to get his penis out of the cage. At home, they only had a hammer, so they went out and bought a pair of bolt cutters. His partner tried first, but she couldn't break through. So Summers had to do it himself. The way he was holding his penis put it "in a dangerous spot," he said, so it was "very scary."
Nonetheless, he was able to break the cage, but the cutters still cut through him, he said.
"I don't have a scar or anything but I was bleeding and it #ing hurt," Summers said.
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.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: dug88
Jesus Christ, and I thought people purposefully sticking their hand in a burner was bad, now people will voluntarily put their pecker in this thing? We are doomed as a species.
originally posted by: zosimov
a reply to: AugustusMasonicus
Honesly Augustus this might actually not be a terrible thing.
The best and the brightest sires will certainly not be locking their junk in a cage.
originally posted by: ketsuko
If they're really into chastity, they hit on the obvious solution there. Just a quick nip of the bolt cutters and there's chastity for a whole month.
originally posted by: Nyiah
a reply to: Drucifer
o.O
I could be tempted to re-hook the cam and mic if it's this easy to hold a hand out and have it filled with cash doing absolutely nada for it.