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Massive FriendFinder Hack Compromises Over 412 Million Accounts
New York Post ^ | November 14, 2016

Posted on 11/14/2016 2:22:10 PM PST by nickcarraway

Login credentials for over 412 million users of adult websites run by California-based FriendFinder Networks Inc. were compromised last month in the largest hack of 2016, according to breach notification website LeakedSource.com.

Compromised data includes nearly 340 million credentials for Adultfriendfinder.com, which bills itself as “the world’s largest sex and swinger community,” some 63 million records from video sex-chat site cams.com and about 7 million records from adult magazine site Penthouse.com, LeakedSource said in a blog published on Sunday.

Asked if the account from LeakedSource was accurate, the company provided Reuters with a statement saying it had brought in outside experts to help review the matter.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: adultery; adultfriendfinder; duggar; friendfinder; hacking; internet; joshduggar

1 posted on 11/14/2016 2:22:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Good thing you dont have any friends :) jk


2 posted on 11/14/2016 2:23:45 PM PST by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: nickcarraway

Can there really be that many serious or semi-serious members of this network? I’m many years out of touch, so I’m really asking.


3 posted on 11/14/2016 2:24:26 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: nickcarraway

I can guess who the hacked info and videos will be sold to-and it isn’t a good thing...


4 posted on 11/14/2016 2:26:59 PM PST by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to drive a hard line"...)
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To: dp0622

Well, if it’s anything like Ashley Madison, they aren’t friends.


5 posted on 11/14/2016 2:31:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Texan5

Meh.
Probably another inside job like Ashley Madison.
Look for information dumps in a month or so outing all the adulterers.


6 posted on 11/14/2016 2:36:25 PM PST by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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To: nickcarraway

lol


7 posted on 11/14/2016 2:40:05 PM PST by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: MrEdd

No matter who hacked the site, if any info is sold to predators who find victims online, it could be far more serious than just exposing a bunch of people’s sex lives to public ridicule-extortion is the least thing that could happen-remember the Craig’s List killer and the Long Island serial killer?


8 posted on 11/14/2016 2:46:07 PM PST by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to drive a hard line"...)
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To: nickcarraway

On Ashley Madison weren’t 99% of the female accounts actually just computer-generated? Probably the same for this one. Lots of sad dudes, but very little actual adultery or non-computerized “friends”.


9 posted on 11/14/2016 2:56:35 PM PST by babble-on
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To: nickcarraway

400 million of those were Carlos Danger.


10 posted on 11/14/2016 3:02:27 PM PST by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: Texan5
The Ashley Madison information wasn't sold it was dumped.

Adulterers hurt other people. Betrayed partners (and those who were hurt in other ways) expose the betrayal. My sympathy here is pretty thin.

Not only were they cooling around, they were so stupid they left a trail in a venue where what has happened was likely to happen essentially. Libidos aren't very smart. Don't let them be in charge of your actions.

11 posted on 11/14/2016 3:12:45 PM PST by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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To: nickcarraway

And more than half of the profiles will be fake. Have fun with that...lol


12 posted on 11/14/2016 3:22:41 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: nickcarraway

Anyone who thinks Adult Friend Finder is a legit dating website is so monumentally stupid they shouldn’t be allowed outdoors without a helmet and a minder.


13 posted on 11/14/2016 3:26:18 PM PST by Mad_as_heck (The MSM - America's (domestic) public enemy #1.)
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To: MrEdd

I think anyone who goes to social media sites-no matter what they are promoting-including farcebook-is either blissfully unaware that they are visible to predators or simply doesn’t think anything can happen-I had a female coworker once whose info was hacked from an evangelical Christian chat room/social media site-and some guy used the info to stalk her-common sense says bad people are everywhere-masquerading as someone safe...

I’m a Tejana with a terrible Latin temper-but I don’t condone adultery, but neither do I take any delight in hearing that someone who never stole, raped, defrauded or murdered someone had the same happen to them-no one deserves to be the victim of that kind of crime unless they have done the same to someone.

Technically speaking, swinging is just a euphemism for wife swapping or open marriage-both spouses knowing what the other is doing, and with whom-having been married to a career military man, I’ve known military couples who were into that-never understood the attraction, myself..


14 posted on 11/14/2016 3:43:02 PM PST by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to drive a hard line"...)
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