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Do you have an account on AdultFriendFinder? If you have, then you should change your password right now. The FriendFinder Networks, the parent company of AdultFriendFinder, cams.com, iCams.com, and Penthouse, has been hacked leaking more than 412 million accounts.
Leaked Sourced has reported this hack. How significant is the impact? No one knows for sure. But remember what happened to the Ashley Madison hack? It affected 32 million people and destroyed so many relationships.
It happened last month. Hackers breached the FriendFinder Networks. It reportedly accessed more than 300 million accounts on AdultFriendFinder. It is a website that markets itself as the world’s largest swinger and sex community.
Furthermore, the hack exposed 62 million accounts on Cams.om. It is an adult site, but it involves live webcam sex chat. On penthouse.com, the hack reveals more than seven million accounts while stripshow.com leaked more than 1.4 million accounts. The iCams.com is also affected leaking more than 1.1 million users.
According to the report, the hack was made through a local file inclusion exploit. It enabled hackers to gain access to all the network’s sites. Currently, LeakedSource will not make the data searchable by the general public.
Passwords In Plaintext
According to some analysts, the hack was inevitable. On FriendFinder, the site stores its users’ passwords in plain text. It does not provide any protection. It also uses a weak SHA1 algorithm. Furthermore, the company is keeping its logins for a site that it is no longer running. For example, the penthouse.com has been sold to Penthouse Global Media in February.
Then, it has been found that FriendFinder kept hold of all emails and passwords of more than 15 million users who already deleted their accounts. FriendFinder Networks did confirm the site’s vulnerability to ZDNET.
“Over the past several weeks, FriendFinder has received a number of reports regarding potential security vulnerabilities from a variety of sources. Immediately upon learning this information, we took several steps to review the situation and bring in the right external partners to support our investigation.” – Diana Ballou, VP of Friend Finder Networks
Why Are FriendFinder Networks Still Holding Millions Of Accounts Of penthouse.com Customers?
In an email sent to ZDNET by the site’s chief executive:
“We are aware of the data hack, and we are waiting on FriendFinder to give us a detailed account of the scope of the breach and their remedial actions in regard to our data.” – Kelly Holland
Even though the number of accounts is quite significant, the lack of personal data involved might not cause the same extortion that happened to Ashley Madison in 2015. But this is a familiar situation. Companies, like FriendFinder, secure their networks inadequately. They also use an insufficient measure to protect the passwords of its users and hoard data that it is not related to the business. Furthermore, the AdultFriendFinder website does not support HTTPS connections. So it is not surprising to know that its website has been hacked.
We can expect to hear and read more news about this hack. For now, you must change your password, if you have accounts on any of those websites.
Source:http://socialbarrel.com/adultfriendfinder-hacked-leaking-over-300-million-accounts/107883/
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