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Privacy stripped bare as hackers breach 412 million Adult Friend Finder accounts

Adult Friend Finder Network has reportedly suffered one of the largest data breaches in internet history. 412 million accounts were breached last month, compromising names, email addresses as well as weakly secured passwords. The biggest tranche was 339 million users of AdultFriendFinder.com, with 62 million webcam users and 7.1 million Penthouse.com users. The site said the sites passwords security was either plain text (125 million accounts) or scrambled using the weak SHA-1 algorithm, which is considered trivially easy to crack.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/11/15/privacy-stripped-bare-as-hackers-breach-412-million-adult-friend-finder-accounts/

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