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Over 412 million adult-website
credentials hacked: security firm
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 [November 15, 2016]
(Reuters) - 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.
"FriendFinder takes the security of its customer information seriously
and is in the process of notifying affected users to provide them with
information and guidance on how they can protect themselves,"
FriendFinder said in the statement.
"Our investigation is ongoing but we will continue to ensure all
potential and substantiated reports of vulnerabilities are reviewed and
if validated, remediated as quickly as possible," it said.
If LeakedSource's claims are confirmed, the number of email addresses
would account for more than 10 times the number exposed in last year's
high-profile hack of infidelity website Ashley Madison. That attack
prompted class action lawsuits and an investigation by the U.S. Federal
Trade Commission.
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LeakedSource said it was able to view passwords for 99 percent of
the credentials.
It said that some 78,301 of the accounts were registered to .mil
email addresses, which are used by the U.S. military, and another
5,650 were .gov addresses used by U.S. government agencies.
(Reporting by Jim Finkle in Boston; Editing by Dan Grebler)
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