Around 15 Excel spreadsheets that contain sensitive information for adult Adult Friend Finder users were published in 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 issued a statement today stating that "it has just been informed of a possible security issue and leak of its data" and that it is currently making efforts to understand the full extent of the incident.
Authorities have already been involved in the investigation and MANDIANT experts from FireEye have been called on to assess the damage and provide response 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.
Currently, the database's database information is still online as confirmed by security researcher Troy Hunt. A tweet stated that the data contains 3.867.997 unique email addresses, and that some of these belong to deleted accounts.
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