FreeOnes data breach: 960K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2025-09-18
In February 2017, the forum for the adult website FreeOnes suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 960k unique email addresses alongside usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Feb 16, 2017; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Sep 18, 2025.
What to do
- If you had a FreeOnes 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.
Sources
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