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Hundreds of millions of users put at risk after AdultFriendFinder and other sites suffer hack.
What has happened?
The AdultFriendFinder website appears to have been hacked, exposing the personal information of hundreds of millions of user accounts.
What is AdultFriendFinder?
I don’t want to be indelicate, so I’ll just tell you it’s strapline: “Hookup, Find Sex or Meet Someone Hot Now”.
Oh! So like Ashley Madison?
Yes, very much so. And we all know what a big story that was, how extortionists attempted to blackmail users, and how lives were damaged as a result. Fortunately, information about individuals’ sexual preferences do not appear to have been included in the exposed databases.
Still, it sounds nasty – and there clearly remains the potential for blackmail. Are there any .gov and .mil email addresses associated with the exposed accounts in this latest breach?
I’m afraid so. Of the 412 million accounts exposed on the breached sites, in 5,650 cases, .gov email addresses have been used to register accounts. The same goes for 78,301 .mil email addresses.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DATA-BREACHES
Hundreds of millions of users put at risk after AdultFriendFinder and other sites suffer hack.
What has happened?
The AdultFriendFinder website appears to have been hacked, exposing the personal information of hundreds of millions of user accounts.
What is AdultFriendFinder?
I don’t want to be indelicate, so I’ll just tell you it’s strapline: “Hookup, Find Sex or Meet Someone Hot Now”.
Oh! So like Ashley Madison?
Yes, very much so. And we all know what a big story that was, how extortionists attempted to blackmail users, and how lives were damaged as a result. Fortunately, information about individuals’ sexual preferences do not appear to have been included in the exposed databases.
Still, it sounds nasty – and there clearly remains the potential for blackmail. Are there any .gov and .mil email addresses associated with the exposed accounts in this latest breach?
I’m afraid so. Of the 412 million accounts exposed on the breached sites, in 5,650 cases, .gov email addresses have been used to register accounts. The same goes for 78,301 .mil email addresses.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DATA-BREACHES