The personal details of millions who signed up to a sex hook-up website in the past 20 years have been exposed in one of the largest ever data breaches.
The email addresses and passwords of 412 million accounts have been leaked after the meet-up website AdultFriendFinder and sister sites were hacked. At least 5.2 million UK email addresses were stolen in the breach, which also included the date of last visit, browser information, some purchasing patterns.
AdultFriendFinder describes itself as “one of the world’s largest sex hook-up” websites, with more than 40 million active users. The hack, against its parent company Friend Finder Networks, also involved data from Cams, a live video sex site, and Penthouse, an internet porn site that was sold in February. Continue reading “Massive hack on sex hook-up website AdultFriendFinder exposes details of 5.2 million UK accounts”