- The US Navy is investigating after videos of dozens of service members were found on Porn Hub.
- The Navy believes the videos, which were secretly filmed, were taken through a peephole in a bathroom.
- Some of the sailors and marines in the videos could be identified by name patches on their uniforms.
- The videos have been removed from the porn website.
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The US Navy is trying to find out who secretly filmed dozens of service members in a bathroom and shared the videos on the porn website Porn Hub, US military officials told NBC news.
An agent from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service found the videos on Porn Hub earlier this month. Some of the videos showed sailors and marines in uniform with visible name patches, NBC reported. The individuals didn't know they were being recorded and officials were not aware of any sexual acts in the videos.
"We received a removal request from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service to remove the material in question and we did. We are currently working alongside them to assist them with their investigation,"Blake White, Vice President of Pornhub, said in a statement to Insider and other outlets. "Here at Pornhub, we immediately remove any content that violates our terms of use as soon as we are made aware of it."
The clips, which have since been removed, also included civilians.
The officials believe the videos were taken through a peephole in a bathroom, according to NBC.
Some of the individuals in the videos were assigned to the USS Emory S. Land, a vessel that supplies submarines and is assigned to a port in Guam, the officials told NBC.
A message left by Insider for a Navy spokesperson was not immediately returned.
In the statement, White said that PornHub employs a team to scan for and remove content that violates their terms of service.
The company also uses "Vobile, a state of the art third party fingerpringing software," to make sure new uploads don't match videos that have already been removed from the site, White said.
This isn't the first time that US service members have been targeted by voyeurs looking to share nude photos of them online.
In a 2017 scandal, the US Marine Corp. opened an investigation after hundreds of nude photos of female service members from every military branch had been posted to an image-sharing message board.
The discovery of the photos and investigation resulted in a change in US Marine and Navy laws banning revenge porn.
Violators who are found to have shared an "intimate image" of a colleague without their consent can face consequences ranging from administrative punishments to criminal actions.
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