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Hack Exposes 412 Million Accounts on AdultFriendFinder Sites (zdnet.com)
"Almost every account password was cracked, thanks to the company's poor security practices," reports ZDNet -- even for "deleted" accounts. An anonymous reader quotes their article:
The hack includes 339 million accounts from AdultFriendFinder.com, which the company describes as the "world's largest sex and swinger community [and] also includes over 15 million "deleted" accounts that weren't purged from the databases. On top of that, 62 million accounts from Cams.com, and 7 million from Penthouse.com were stolen, as well as a few million from other smaller properties owned by the company. The data accounts for two decades' worth of data from the company's largest sites, according to breach notification LeakedSource, which obtained the data... The three largest site's SQL databases included usernames, email addresses, and the date of the last visit, and passwords, which were either stored in plaintext or scrambled with the SHA-1 hash function, which by modern standards isn't cryptographically as secure as newer algorithms.
The attack apparently coincides with the discovery of "a local file inclusion flaw on the AdultFriendFinder site, which if successfully exploited could allow an attacker to remotely run malicious code on the web server. " Ironically, Friend Finder Networks doesn't even own Penthouse.com anymore. They sold the site to a new owner last February.
The attack apparently coincides with the discovery of "a local file inclusion flaw on the AdultFriendFinder site, which if successfully exploited could allow an attacker to remotely run malicious code on the web server. " Ironically, Friend Finder Networks doesn't even own Penthouse.com anymore. They sold the site to a new owner last February.
Tell me the typo in the title is intentional.
I am so sick and tired of databases not being properly protected. One thing you can do is to monitor outbound traffic. If you suddenly see a huge stream from the DB server to somewhere it doesn't normally go, a banshee cry should come from your monitoring system.
You can also include "trap" data in the DB and have pattern matching set up (on the system, in the network, on the routers). See the pattern, alarms and cell phones should start ringing.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
i smell scandals happening. i can already hear neighbors yelling and slammed doors.
1. Sign up for sites like these using your enemies' information.
2. Wait for said sites to get hacked (because they inevitably will), spewing your enemies information across the Interwebs and filling their lives with unexpected shame and scandal.
3.Profit!
SHA has the best rounds, believe me. bcrypt and scrypt are so slow, they are all computation and no results.
For Trump's account?
I guess, some divorce-lawyer's wet dream just came true.
339 million accounts, but 338.8 million were fake accounts with pictures of large-breasted women who were eager to have sex with me. And they all live "near" me, even though I live on the International Space Station in low-Earth orbit.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
There's that many people signing up for this.
Didn't this happen already, something like a year go?
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Surely SHA-1 is perfectly fine as long as you salt it sensibly? The only way you can materially improve on SHA-1 is to use a hashing algorithm that is computationally expensive.
Almost another half billion accounts of people spread to the four winds because of how much better private industry is than government.
When you add up all the hacks private industry has allowed because of their incompetence one can easily count 2 billion people, many no doubt duplicates, having their personal information compromised.
But excuses will be made about how great private industry is, how it's not really the programmer's fault or the database administrator's fault or the web designer's fault. Nope, it will be someone else's fault because private industry does things so much better than government it's easy to pass blame and no one will be held accountable as a result.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Yes. While SHA-1 has seen successful collision attacks (attackers can find two messages that generate the same hash), practical preimage attacks (attacker finds a message that generates either a specified hash value or the same hash value as a specified message) are not currently known. I would guess that these passwords effectively did not use salts.
There are no known SHA-1 collisions. Essentially, it's never been fully hacked. As you mentioned any hash must be salted for password use, and salted SHA-1 would be fine for most any public web site.
However, a partial crack of SHA-1 exists. The NSA or the Chinese government might well be able to crack it.
SHA-2 is recommended for all new hashes. For example, new TLS (SSL) certificates are signed with SHA-2, not SHA-1. In 2017, major browsers may stop accepting TLS certificates signed with SHA-1.
Upgrading can be easy if you used the crypt() system call, or a higher-level function that calls crypt() underneath. That includes MySQL encrypt(), Perl crypt(), etc. If you do, just change the salt you use for the initial hashing - the password CHECKING code remains unchanged.
Like seriously, how many of these accounts are real and not just fake accounts made by the site to fool people into thinking there's a lot of people out there.
There aren't even preimage attacks known for MD5.
Three. One even became my girlfriend for two years. So there are real women on there.
How long until we find Carlos Danger (Anthony Wiener) or Diane Reynolds (Chelsea Clinton) in the dumps?
That said, if you find one listed as "Evergreen" I'd advise that you run and don't turn back.
That's Hillary, if you didn't know.
Did the mod who modded this as "Interesting" not get the joke?
Some time between 7 and 13 years ago, I can't remember the details. All I found was an unending parade of spammers and scammers. What a complete waste of time and energy.
I do remember googling "free email services" to find a place to set up a throwaway account that was completely unconnected to me. Now I see another confirmation that was the right thing to do.
Swedish is pretty localized to Sweden and there is 1 266 684 accounts registered with main language Swedish in the database.
That would indicate that over 10% of Sweden's population is registered there! (13.2%) of Swedens 9,6 million inhabitants.
Seems legit :D
Indeed, the real problem is that passwords are a terrible way of securing stuff. Human memory is too easy to predict and model, which is why even "good" passwords consisting of multiple words and numbers are relatively easy to crack these days, even with slated SHA-1 protecting them.
Didn't Google say they were working on something better than passwords? We need it sooner rather than later. Hard to imagine what form it will take though. Biometrics are obviously stupid, and it needs to be convenient and secure and compatible with a wide range of devices and services to work.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
The only way you can materially improve on SHA-1 is to use a hashing algorithm that is computationally expensive.
And, so, we improve on it by making it more computationally expensive. What's wrong with that?
You'd think one could trust these amoral website companies to keep everything secure from "the man" --- but noooo!
I'm running out of passwords. Password1, Password2, Password123456, now i'll just hold down the 99999999 key.
Need to search that data for the name "Melania"
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