Adult FriendFinder (2015) data breach: 3.9M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2015-05-22
In May 2015, the adult hookup site Adult FriendFinder was hacked and nearly 4 million records dumped publicly. The data dump included extremely sensitive personal information about individuals and their relationship statuses and sexual preferences combined with personally identifiable information. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, geographic locations, ip addresses, races, relationship statuses, sexual orientations, spoken languages, usernames. The breach dates from May 21, 2015; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on May 22, 2015.
What to do
- If you had a Adult FriendFinder (2015) account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
Sources
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