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Adult Dating Site Hack Reveals Users' Sexual Preference, Extramarital Affairs
An anonymous reader notes this report from Channel 4 News that Adult FriendFinder, one of the largest dating sites in the world, has suffered a database breach that revealed personal information for 3.9 million of its users. The leaked data includes email addresses, IP addresses, birth dates, postal codes, sexual preferences, and information indicating which of them are seeking extramarital affairs. There even seems to be data from accounts that were supposedly deleted. Channel 4 saw evidence that there were plans for a spam campaign against these users, and others are worried that a blackmail campaign will follow. "Where you've got names, dates of birth, ZIP codes, then that provides an opportunity to actually target specific individuals whether they be in government or healthcare for example, so you can profile that person and send more targeted blackmail-type emails," said cybercrime specialist Charlie McMurdy.
sorry, gotta go.
Given that their list of choices for sexual preferences doesn't include tentacle-on-pregnant furry futanari, I think I'm pretty safe.
After the last big hack I had to give up my old IP address, 192.168.0.1, which I had used for years. What a pain!
You realize that putting quotes around it usually indicates that there is a nudge and wink going on at the same time. Reminds me of the joke: Guy sits and drinks at the bar till closing. Bartender tells him "Hey buddy, time to go, your the last one here." Guy pulls a gun on the bartender and forces him to give him a blow job. Partway through, the guy looses concentration and the gun slips down. Bartender picks it up and hands it back to the guy. "Dont want anyone to come in and catch me doing this and think I'm gay!!"
This is horrible.
I think I had an account but like all adult sites I sign up for I used a throwaway email, lie about my age and location, and only show my dick and balls in photos.
And no will recognize the dick and balls as I'm a virgin in my 30s.
you forgot to add the recurring charges ;) in your equation