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FriendFinder breach shows it's time to be adults about security
Like all sectors -- government, retail, finance and healthcare -- the adult and porn businesses are feeling the consequences of not making security a priority, in the worst possible ways. Namely, by getting hacked and pwned, hard. Take for example this week's breach-bloodbath, in which FriendFinder Networks (FFN) lost their Sourcefire code to criminal hackers and put their users in serious risk. Combined with Ashley Madison's many deceits, FFN also contributed to the deepening public mistrust about the very sensitive data exchange between adult companies and their consumers.
AdultFriendFinder hack puts 412 million accounts at risk
There have been some massive data breaches in recent years, but the latest might just top them all. LeakedSource reports that a hack targeting Friend Finder Network has exposed over 412 million accounts, most of them (339 million) belonging to sex hookup site AdultFriendFinder. Users at Cams.com (62 million), Penthouse (7 million) and a handful of smaller sites were also affected. This reportedly represents about 20 years' worth of data, and handily eclipses the 360 million records from the MySpace breach.
