A new massive data breach is in the headlines, the victim is the adult dating and entertainment website Friend Finder Network. The data breach has exposed more than million accounts, million of which from the AdultFriendFinder.
A close look at the databases revealed that 62 million belong to Cams. Below data provided by the data breach notification LeakedSource that examined the stolen data:.
This event also marks the second time Friend Finder has been breached in two years, the first being around May of A list of sites we have verified, how many affected accounts and a brief description are as follows:. It seems that attackers exploited a local file inclusion flaw in the AdultFriendFinder website that was first reported by the security researcher known as Revolver.
Revolver explained that the exploitation of the flaw on the AdultFriendFinder site could allow a remote attacker to run malicious code on the target web server. It is still a mystery who is behind the data breach, Revolver denied any involvement in the attack, he blamed users of Russian hacking site instead. This is the second time Friend Finder Networks is breached by hackers, the first attack occurred in May of when the attackers exposed almost 4 million accounts.
LeakedSource also published a table of top email providers used, from AdultFriendFinder. The vast majority emails are hotmail. Pierluigi Paganini. Security Affairs β Adult FriendFinder , data breach. AdultFriendFinder company data breach exposes million accounts. Pierluigi Paganini November 13, LeakedSource confirmed that it will not make the data searchable by the general public for various reasons.
