Over 300 Million AdultFriendFinder accounts convey reportedly been exposed inward a massive information breach that striking adult dating as well as amusement society Friend Finder Network.
Friend Finder Network is the world's largest sexual practice as well as swinger community that has a number of assets as well as the hack reportedly exposed the information from to a greater extent than than 412 Million accounts across its corporate holdings, which include AdultFriendFinder, Cams, Penthouse, as well as Stripshow.
412,214,295 User's Accounts on SALE!
Breach notification site LeakedSource broke the story, reporting that nearly 339 Million accounts from sexual practice hookup site AdultFriendFinder, over lx Million accounts from Cams.com, vii Million from Penthouse as well as a handful of accounts from Stripshow as well as iCams were compromised, for a full of 412,214,295 affected users.
"Over 400 ane chiliad one thousand accounts representing twenty years of client information was compromised, which makes it past times far the largest breach nosotros convey always seen," said LeakedSource.
Poor Or No Encryption for Passwords
According to the breach notification service, the database containing electronic mail addresses, easily crackable (or inward roughly cases, unprotected) passwords, usernames, IP addresses as well as browser information, of over 412 Million users has been made available to online criminal marketplaces.
LeakedSource farther reveals that Friend Finder Network did non properly encrypt its users’ data. The society stored user passwords inward evidently visible format, or amongst the really poor Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA1) hash function, which is non regarded equally secure.
Talking nearly passwords, hither are roughly mutual passwords that were used past times Friend Finder Network users to log inward to the websites: 123456, 123456789, password, qwerty, as well as pussy, fuckme, fuckyou as well as iloveyou.
Millions Of Deleted User Accounts Also Exposed
What's worse? If y'all are feeling relieved as well as thanking God that y'all already deleted your work organization human relationship on the adult website inward the past times as well as y'all are on the safer side, I am miserable to tell that y'all also are inward cracking trouble.
The leaked database also includes details of over fifteen Million users who already had "deleted" their accounts, equally good equally users for assets the society no longer owned, similar Penthouse.
In damage of cheating partners, the hack, which took house final month, is non equally bad equally final year’s information breach that exposed undercover sexual fantasies of over 3.5 Million cheating people.
On the other hand, the Ashley Madison information breach exposed the previous twelvemonth also to a greater extent than sensitive than the latest ane because the breach exposed confidential information similar sexual preferences, fantasies, fetishes as well as others such information of around 32 Million users.
Here's How the Adult Network perchance got Hacked:
According to CSO Online, a safety researcher using the online moniker, Revolver discovered Local File Inclusion vulnerabilities on the AdultFriendFinder website final month. The researcher believed that the same flaw was exploited to hack the adult network.
Friend Finder Network said the society was aware of the safety incident as well as was looking into the thing to create upwards one's heed whether or non the claims were valid.
"We are aware of reports of a safety incident, as well as nosotros are currently investigating to create upwards one's heed the validity of the reports," Diana Lynn Ballou, Friend Finder Network's Vice President as well as Senior Counsel of Corporate Compliance & Litigation told CSO Online. "If nosotros confirm that a safety incident did occur, nosotros volition piece of work to address whatever issues as well as notify whatever customers that may hold out affected."So, the society neither confirmed nor denied the hack against its network, though admitted the society had of late received several reports of safety problems.
Friend Finder Network has yet to offering additional details on the hack as well as why the society was withal storing information of user’s accounts deleted long ago.
