Around 15 Excel spreadsheets containing sensitive information for web usersσελίδαs Adult Friend Finder were posted on an underground forum.
The adult site Adult Friend Finder is intended for people looking for casual sex and has a subscriber base of tens of millions of users around the world. The company allegedly did not know the incident.
The company released a statement today saying it was “just made aware of a potential security issue and leakage of data her" and that she is currently making efforts to understand the full extent of the incident.
The authorities are already involved in the investigation and experts have been called MANDIANT by FireEye to assess the damage, and provide remedial solutions and measures to prevent similar events in the future.
People affected by the leakage reach 3.900.000, according to the British Channel 4 News. Spoken email addresses, addresses, names, birthdays, postal codes, sexual preferences, sex, and IPs of user's computers. All data are online via the anonymous Tor network.
It seems that the incident happened before 13 in April as reported in a publication by the researcher of Drak Web, Bev Robb, who did not name the Adult Friend Finder as a target, but said the information was sent by a hacker using the ROR [RG] alias.
At this time the website database information is still online as confirmed by the security researcher Troy Hunt. He said in a tweet that the data contained 3.867.997 unique email addresses, and that some of them belonged to accounts that had been deleted.
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