Category: AdultFriendFinder
Dating Sites: A Magnet For Hackers?
ITPRO.CO.UK – May 9 – The Ashley Madison attack in July 2015 revealed the sensitive data of 37M people. Adult Friend Finder was also hacked, with the personal details of 4M users leaked, including their IP addresses and dates of birth. More recently, BeautifulPeople also had their details leaked online. "Dating sites contain a very high level of personal information, which can be very valuable in the wrong hands and quite damaging for those involved," said Rob Norris, director of enterprise and cybersecurity for EMEIA at Fujitsu. Are dating sites targeted more frequently than other sites? According to David Emm, principal security researcher as Kaspersky Lab, the answer is not necessarily. "Dating sites certainly draw a lot of media interest," said Emm. "Hacks happen to other sites but is a less newsworthy story."
by Jane McCallion
See full article at ITPro.co.uk
See all posts on AshleyMadison
See all posts on AdultFriendFinder
See all posts on BeautifulPeople
AdultFriendFinder Offers One Month Free To Users Of Its Competitors
BUSINESS WIRE – Feb 4 – FriendFinder Networks promises to never use female bots with fake profiles as a method of luring new members. The company is now offering free one-month Gold memberships to anyone who signs up on AdultFriendFinder and can show proof of membership in a competitive adult dating site.
See full article at Businesswire
Scammers And Spammers: Inside Online Dating’s Sex Bot Con Job
ROLLING STONE – Feb 1 – A hacker group called The Impact Team leaked internal memos from Ashley Madison's parent company, Avid Life, which revealed the widespread use of sexbots. 59% of all online traffic is generated by bots, according to the tech analyst firm, Are You a Human. AM is not the only ones using fake profiles," says Marc Lesnick, organizer of iDate. "It's definitely pervasive." In an email, Fling.com owner Abe Smilowitz writes, "We absolutely don't use fake profiles and bots… Us and AdultFriendFinder are pretty much the only guys that don't." Bot software is freely available online. Plenty of people just want some kind of customizable, convincing experience to get turned on. Facebook's $2B acquisition of Oculus Rift is one big clue that simulated life online is about to get exponentially immersive.
by David Kushner
The full article was originally published at Rolling Stone, but is no longer available.
See all posts on AshleyMadison
See all posts on AdultFriendFinder
See all posts on Fling
Most Dating Sites Have Bad Password Practices
FORBES – Sep 10 – An analysis of the security practices of 24 leading online dating sites has concluded that only seven use secure-enough password practices. Password management company Dashlane assessed each site on 19 different criteria, including the minimum length for a password to be acceptable, and whether there was a requirement for a mix of letters and numbers. Only Zoosk and OkCupid score ~50%. Most mainstream Internet services generally get 75 or above; Apple scores 100%. eHarmony scores 38, while Match.com, Gleeden and Adult Friend Finder all get 30%. At the bottom end of the scale, Badoo and POF with 22.
India Has Lifted Its Porn Ban, AdultFriendFinder Is Up Again
TIMES OF INDIA – Aug 6 – Within four days of banning 857 websites deemed to be pornographic, the government reversed the order on Tuesday, making an exception only for sites engaged in child pornography.
by Pankaj Doval
See full article at Times of India
AdultFriendFinder Blocked In India
INDEPENDENT.CO.UK – Aug 3 – India appears to have banned porn, ordering Internet companies to turn off access to adult sites, dating sites and pornographic blogs. The list of the 857 banned sites includes Adult Friend Finder.
by Andrew Griffin
See full article at Independent.co.uk
Adult FriendFinder Was Warned About The Hack
CHANNEL4 – May 27 – The owners of Adult FriendFinder were warned that it had been hacked more than two months before Channel 4 News exposed the leak of 4M people's sensitive data. The company said the warning ended up in its spam folder, despite an email from an employee indicating that it had been read.
by Geoff White
See full article at Channel4
AdultFriendFinder’s Profiles For Sale For $17K
THEHILL – May 26 – According to multiple reports, the giant database of user data stolen from AdultFriendFinder is going for 70 bitcoins ($17K) on the dark Web. It would be easy for hackers to user the leaked information to identify people in real life through Facebook. This could put users at risk of extortion and blackmail. The hacker is also offering to break into any company or website for ~$170K worth of bitcoin.
by Cory Bennett
See full article at TheHill
Hacked Data Reveals That Only 6% Of UK Adult FriendFinder Users Are Female
DAILYMAIL.COM – May 25 – Only 1,596 of the 26,939 users with a UK email address identified as female. That means the ratio of male to female AFF members in the UK is 16:1. ~4M users of AdultFriendFinder had highly sensitive information, including birthdays, ZIP codes, sexual orientations and email and IP addresses, exposed during the hack.
by Evan Bleier
See full article at DailyMail.co.uk