Remember back when we reported that these “sex toys” could potentially have a security problem? Welp, it happened.

Via VICE:

A hacker took control of people’s internet-connected chastity cages and demanded a ransom to be paid in Bitcoin to unlock it. 

“Your cock is mine now,” the hacker told one of the victims, according to a screenshot of the conversation obtained by a security researcher that goes by the name Smelly and is the founder of vx-underground, a website that collects malware samples.  

A victim who asked to be identified only as Robert said that he received a message from a hacker demanding a payment of 0.02 Bitcoin (around $750 today) to unlock the device. He realized his cage was definitely “locked,” and he “could not gain access to it.” 

“Fortunately I didn’t have this locked on myself while this happened,” Robert said in an online chat. 

As the VICE writer says, if we’ve learned one lesson from this experience it’s that “just because you can connect something to the internet, it doesn’t mean you have to”. Happy Monday y’all.