An email address confirmed as belonging to Texas Democrat James Talarico has surfaced in a leaked database from the adult dating site Fling.com.
And the interests attached to that record are not exactly campaign-brochure material.
The profile lists “FETISH,” “GROUPSEX,” “SEXUAL RELATIONS,” “ONLINE FLIRTING” and “OTHER.”
But there is an important line the evidence does not cross: the available records do not establish who actually created or controlled the account.
Talarico’s attorneys insist he never created or used a Fling.com account. They say someone used a hacked email address, and they point to a birth date and ZIP code in the record that do not match him.
Townhall laid out its exclusive findings and the campaign’s response in detail:
Townhall reports that the record carries the username “mohawk787” and a creation timestamp of December 26, 2010. The publication says Talarico’s lawyers confirmed the email address belonged to him and was once used by him, but they firmly denied that he created or used this account.
The displayed record marks the email as validated with a “Y,” rather than the database’s default “N.” It also shows the creation and last-login timestamps only 54 seconds apart, with no evidence of later access before the database leaked.
That 54-second window cuts both ways.
It undercuts any attempt to describe a long-running account history. Yet it does not answer how the email became validated, who entered the profile interests or who was behind the keyboard during those 54 seconds.
The report also says the same email appears in displayed Myspace and Zynga records. A separate Neopets record tied to an email associated with Talarico’s sister reportedly carries the same IP address as the Fling record.
A matching IP address can suggest the same household or network, but it is not the same thing as identifying a specific user. Shared networks and reassigned addresses can produce matches involving different people.
Salem News Channel carried the core development Friday evening:
The Gateway Pundit highlighted the explicit interests field and the timing: the account record dates to shortly before Talarico began teaching sixth grade at Rhodes Middle School in San Antonio. The displayed username is “mohawk787,” while the interests field contains five selections that include “FETISH” and “GROUPSEX.”
The outlet also published the direct denial from Talarico’s attorneys. They said the email had been hacked and emphasized the mismatched birth date and ZIP code.
The lawyers further argued that the 54-second activity window showed the account was never meaningfully used and warned that claiming Talarico created or used it would be false. At the same time, the report notes that the email appeared as validated rather than sitting at the database default, leaving a factual dispute over how that happened.
That denial belongs near the center of this story, not buried at the bottom.
So does the fact that the broader breach itself is authentic.
Cybersecurity researcher Troy Hunt documented his verification of the Fling.com data in 2016. He published the database structure, including the “email_validated” and “interested_in” fields, and explained that the leak arrived as a detailed MySQL database dump rather than a loose list of email addresses.
Hunt wrote that the structure contained internal identifiers, timestamps, account settings and other fields that could be checked against the service’s own system. He also reported that the site’s domain registrant confirmed the legitimacy of a sample, while affected subscribers confirmed their own records.
That supports the authenticity of the underlying Fling breach and explains why the record deserves scrutiny. It does not prove that every email owner personally created every account bearing that address.
Those are two different questions, and serious reporting has to keep them separate.
The political reaction arrived almost immediately.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Talarico’s Republican opponent in the U.S. Senate race, went straight for the jugular:
Paxton’s statement goes further than the evidence currently establishes. The leak ties Talarico’s confirmed email address to the record; it does not conclusively identify who created the profile.
Still, the timing could hardly be worse for the Democrat.
Early voting in Texas ends October 30, and Election Day is Tuesday, November 3. Talarico is trying to sell voters on a faith-centered political identity while fighting for a Senate seat that could help determine control of the chamber.
Last year, Axios separately reported that his personal Instagram account followed adult performers, escorts and OnlyFans creators. His campaign responded that its social team follows back supporters with large audiences and does not investigate their backgrounds, adding that Talarico had never subscribed to OnlyFans or an escort service.
That earlier controversy does not prove the new Fling account was his, either.
What the new reporting does establish is narrower—and still explosive: an email address his lawyers acknowledge was his appears in an authentic adult-site breach record with “fetish” and “group sex” listed among the profile interests.
Voters can weigh the record, the validated-email flag, the IP overlap, the mismatched personal details and the lawyers’ hacking explanation for themselves.
But with days left before the election, this is one October surprise the Talarico campaign will not be able to wave away with a slogan.
This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.
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