Fling data breach: 40.8M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2016-05-28
In 2011, the self-proclaimed "World's Best Adult Social Network" website known as Fling was hacked and more than 40 million accounts obtained by the attacker. The breached data included highly sensitive personal attributes such as sexual orientation and sexual interests as well as email addresses and passwords stored in plain text. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, geographic locations, ip addresses, passwords, phone numbers, sexual fetishes, sexual orientations, usernames, website activity. The breach dates from Mar 10, 2011; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on May 28, 2016.
What to do
- If you had a Fling 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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