Privacy News Adult Websites Breached as 412 Million Users Exposed

[Jack]

Adult entertainment company FriendFinder Network has suffered a breach of over 400 million customer accounts, exposing the details of its various hook up and porn sites.

A database of just over 412 million accounts has been reported on the darknet, containing email addresses and passwords stored either in plaintext or SHA1 hashed.

While the data isn’t potentially as incriminating as that stolen from affairs site Ashley Madison, it still makes it possible to identify and therefore potentially blackmail users of the various sites belonging to FriendFinder Network.

These include AdultFriendFinder (339m users), Cams.com (62m), Penthouse.com (7m), Stripshow.com (1m), and iCams.com (1m).

The hack happened in October, with attackers using a Local File Inclusion exploit to infiltrate the network, according to data breach notification site LeakedSource.

The site said that given the circumstances surrounding this breach it would not be revealing a searchable version of the data set for public consumption.

Interestingly, it emerged that FriendFinder Network has been storing the details of users who have asked to leave and have their accounts deleted – over 15 million of them.

In addition, 99% of passwords are either plainly visible or easily crackable, LeakedSource said.

As per usual there are a large number of .mil (78,301) and .gov (5650) addresses on the breach list.

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[Wave]

Well if someone had cheated on their girlfriend/wife or vice-versa... While I do not condone what has happened... Karma.

 

[Tony Cole]

People out there really do have a serious problem with people cheating on their partners - But I agree 100% with Wave if you cheat then you deserve it, you completely destroy the other person, just end the relationship.

 

[Anker_by]

lol good for them, they dont have nothing to do, my opinion they waste time because some people that time they talk each other, they can find a good staff to learn computer IT and "how to remove a virus", well everyones have different mind...

 

[Solarquest]

Again passwords not encrypted or easily crackable...fines are needed... companies are not learning, they are "asking" for fines.
400m people on these sites are a lot...and 15 still there even if they didn't want anymore is incredible.
I see claims coming....

 

[ForgottenSeer 55474]

I do not feel sorry for them

 

[tim one]

Well, with 400 million accounts, this market is definitely not in crisis

 

[Exterminator]

Though there might be,depending on how you look at it ,some morality issues regarding those people who are customers the morality issues are not included in the article.
We should probably keep our comments to the breech issues and the hack rather than morality issues.Otherwise it just becomes a thread on personal beliefs and morals.
After all it is a news article on security and a breech of personal data including how it was accomplished.