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“FriendFinder takes the security of its customer information seriously.” That was followed by the usual blah blah blah a company proclaims after the public learns it was hacked. Here are the top 10 passwords used on FFN sites:įFN told ZDNet that most reports of security vulnerabilities it received over the last several weeks were “false extortion attempts,” but that it fixed one vulnerability.
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October 2016 prodigy hacks cracked#
LeakedSource has already cracked 99% of the passwords and even cracked passwords which were 32 characters in length. mil emails.” The top three email domains used when people registered accounts were Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail. gov registered emails on all websites combined and 78,301. LeakedSource always includes some interesting tidbits in its analysis such as English being the main language spoken by FFN users and “there are 5,650. “If anyone registered an account prior to November of 2016 on any Friend Finder website, they should assume they are impacted and prepare for the worst,” LeakedSource told Salted Hash. There were a “significant number” of users with an email formatted as LeakedSource said, “The addition of was done behind the scenes by Adult Friend Finder.” In fact, LeakedSource found 15,766,727 “deleted” accounts from.
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Notice that was in the past tense, since some companies tend to hang onto data forever and LeakedSource believes deleted accounts may be included in the breach. If you had an account on any FFN site, you should likely consider it to be compromised. LeakedSource decided not to make the data searchable at this time. It is believed the hack occurred in October. The 412,214,295 exposed records from the breach break down like this:
October 2016 prodigy hacks full#
(The Yahoo hack, which exposed 500 million records, happened in 2014 even if the public did not learn the full extent of the breach until 2016.)Īccording to LeakedSource, the six FFN databases included usernames, email addresses and passwords stored either in plaintext or hashed using SHA1 with pepper.