Adult FriendFinder (2016) data breach: 169.7M accounts exposed
Severity: critical · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-02-06
In October 2016, the adult entertainment company Friend Finder Networks suffered a massive data breach. The incident impacted multiple separate online assets owned by the company, the largest of which was the Adult FriendFinder website alleged to be "the world's largest sex & swinger community". Exposed data included usernames, passwords stored as SHA-1 hashes and 170 million unique email addresses. This incident is separate to the 2015 data breach Adult FriendFinder also suffered. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, spoken languages, usernames. The breach dates from Oct 16, 2016; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 6, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Adult FriendFinder (2016) 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.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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