A porn firm has simply been handed the most important high-quality ever issued below the On-line Security Act.
8579 LLC, a pornography supplier with a clutch of widespread websites, was fined a document £1.35m for not having age checks in place, plus £50,000 for failing to answer an info request.
Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator that issued the fines, stated if the agency doesn’t instantly implement extremely efficient age assurance, it’s going to additionally face a each day penalty of £1,000.
It can even be fined £250 a day till it responds to the regulator’s requests for info, together with a full listing of all of its websites. After 60 days, if it nonetheless has not responded, the fines can be capped.
From July, all pornography suppliers with UK audiences needed to begin correctly checking the ages of their customers.
A tick-box asking customers in the event that they had been over 18 was now not thought of a correct age test, and main suppliers launched expertise to properly verify their users’ ages.
Ofcom says it was monitoring people who didn’t, and investigations were soon launched into among the greatest non-compliant websites.
8579 LLC was one of many firms being investigated.
Up till not less than 19 November 2025, 8579 LLC didn’t implement extremely efficient age assurance on three of its main websites, in accordance with the regulator, with one different web site persevering with to interrupt age verification guidelines.
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George Lusty, director of enforcement at Ofcom, stated: “We have been clear that grownup websites should deploy sturdy age checks to guard youngsters within the UK from seeing porn.
“Those who fail to do that – or ignore legally binding requests from us – ought to anticipate to face fines.”
Ofcom’s investigation into 8579 LLC initially included two extra websites run by the corporate, however they had been transferred to a different enterprise registered within the Seychelles earlier than Ofcom may announce its preliminary findings.
Sky Information has tried to contact 8579 LLC for remark by way of its web sites.
