The site Adult Friend Finder, the “world’s largest sex and swingers site” recently exposed 412 million user credentials due to poor, or in some cases, non-existent password hashing practices. The biggest group losses were:
- 339 million users of AdultFriendFinder.com
- 62 million users of webcam site cams.com
- 7.1 million users of Penthouse.com
- 1.4 million users of stripshow.com
As we discussed last week, the reason that the Yahoo breach went unreported is ...
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