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Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked - 1/11/2017 10:18:53 PM   
Greta75


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Anyway, can't be bothered, I never put any real info on myself in any of these sites.
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RE: Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked - 1/11/2017 10:47:19 PM   
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RE: Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked - 1/12/2017 12:54:31 AM   
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I received mail from them that my information on it has been compromised ha! They want me to change my password.

Anyway, can't be bothered, I never put any real info on myself in any of these sites.

Have you considered it might be a phishing scam?


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RE: Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked - 1/12/2017 2:32:40 AM   
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Have you considered it might be a phishing scam?


But the email address is the authentic friendfinder usual email address when they send updates to us.


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RE: Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked - 1/12/2017 2:36:27 AM   
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Ok so you're not a female sub from Singapore then?

I think I spoke about this before. I use these websites to find fuck buddies. I have regular fuck buddies who been seeing me re-occuringly for 1 or 2 years that does not know anything real about me.

Not my real name, not where I stay, not my real job, nothing. When I want to disappear, I can just disappear. He has my disposable number, my disposable email.

That's just the way I protect myself. I have major trust issues, as even just vanilla casual sex, I believe the guy could blackmail me to continue if I want out. And this is the safest way to enjoy casual sex.

The only things that are real they know about is my sexual preferences, so that, that part of things can go smoothly and enjoyably.

My gender and orientation gotta be real, since when we physically interact with each other, that part of things need to add up.


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RE: Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked - 1/12/2017 4:42:46 AM   
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Have you considered it might be a phishing scam?


But the email address is the authentic friendfinder usual email address when they send updates to us.



And you've never heard of faking the spam headers???
It's very common with phishing scams - it looks authentic.
I get quite a few from Paypal too - they all look very real and want you to click on a link to change your password.

Really, Greta. You are sooo naive for someone of your age.


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RE: Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked - 1/12/2017 4:45:57 AM   
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And you've never heard of faking the spam headers???
It's very common with phishing scams - it looks authentic.
I get quite a few from Paypal too - they all look very real and want you to click on a link to change your password.

Really, Greta. You are sooo naive for someone of your age.


The paypal ones I got were not authentic paypal emails though. It was all always obviously fake ones.

Besides the message simply told you to log into your adult friend finder account to change your password. It didn't provide a link or anything for you to reach there. So for you to do that, you'd have to type in the actual URL anyway.

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RE: Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked - 1/12/2017 4:58:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		I doubt that friendfinder has been hacked.

That is just one portal into a central system run by Various Inc.
The core systems has about a dozen or more portals.
If it had been hacked, it would have hit the news.
I am also a member of the friendfinder network and when I asked them this morning, they were not aware of any hacking.

I would treat it as a phishing scam.
And just opening the email could have planted a tracker, keylogger or spyware onto your system.


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RE: Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked - 1/12/2017 5:06:36 AM   
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412 million ...
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/11/adultfriendfinder-hacked-exposes-400-million-hookup-users/

AdultFriendFinder hacked: 400 million accounts exposed
Huge breach reveals 15 million "deleted" accounts among compromised data...



so yeah I would open a new account rather than trusting the email
if its important

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RE: Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked - 1/12/2017 5:10:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		Strange that they are denying any hacking this morning - as of about an hour ago.

Even so, if you are stupid enough to put any personal info on any site that you wouldn't tell your neighbour or your grandmother, more fool you.


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RE: Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked - 1/12/2017 5:14:41 AM   
Lucylastic


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AdultFriendFinder hacked: 400 million accounts exposed | Ars Technica
arstechnica.com/.../11/adultfriendfinder-hacked-exposes-400-million-hookup-users/
Nov 14, 2016 - AdultFriendFinder has been hacked, revealing the account details of more than 400 million people who would undoubtedly prefer to keep their ...

AdultFriendFinder network hack exposes 412 million accounts | ZDNet
www.zdnet.com/.../adultfriendfinder-network-hack-exposes-secrets-of-412-million-us...
Nov 13, 2016 - The hack includes 339 million accounts from AdultFriendFinder.com, which the company describes as the "world's largest sex and swinger ...

Adult Friend Finder and Penthouse hacked in massive personal data ...
https://www.theguardian.com › Technology › Hacking
Nov 14, 2016 - Adult dating and pornography site company Friend Finder Networks has been hacked, exposing the private details of more than 412m ...

AdultFriendFinder Hacked: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com
heavy.com/.../adult-finder-adultfriendfinder-aff-hacked-private-information-leaked-...
Nov 14, 2016 - AdultFriendFinder users woke up to unwelcome news that the sex hook-up website had been hacked. More than 300 million accounts in the ...

Adult Friend Finder Website Hacked: How To Search The Leaked ...
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Nov 16, 2016 - Adult Friend Finder has been hit with a data breach 10 times larger than last year's Ashley Madison attack, and anyone worried that their ...

Massive hack on sex hook-up website AdultFriendFinder exposes ...
www.telegraph.co.uk › Technology
Nov 14, 2016 - AdultFriendFinder describes itself as "one of the world's largest sex hook-up" websites, with more than 40 million active users. The hack ...

AdultFriendFinder hacked, 400 million user accounts stolen - Business ...
uk.businessinsider.com/adult-dating-site-adultfriendfinder-hacked-400-million-user-a...
Nov 14, 2016 - Friend Finder Networks, the company behind adult dating site AdultFriendFinder has been hit with a massive hack — exposing more than 400 ..



scuse the messs but I havent got much energy this morning, lol


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RE: Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked - 1/12/2017 5:19:03 AM   
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Strange that they are denying any hacking this morning - as of about an hour ago.


So looks like I am not being naive after all!

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RE: Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked - 1/12/2017 5:25:40 AM   
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Strange that they are denying any hacking this morning - as of about an hour ago.


So looks like I am not being naive after all!


Naive isnt what I would call it.
There is a discrepancy between nov 14th and jan 12, so I wouldnt have touched the email, but considering your location, *shrugs*
Damn slow if its not a phishing email




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RE: Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked - 1/12/2017 5:34:21 AM   
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Naive isnt what I would call it.
There is a discrepancy between nov 14th and jan 12, so I wouldnt have touched the email, but considering your location, *shrugs*
Damn slow if its not a phishing email


It's normal. Considering yahoo was hacked months ago. And I really only started receiving emails also this month that my accounts were compromise. I have about 10 different yahoo accounts.

And all of them arrived late.

I think these organizations goes into panic and take a while before they regroup and decide how to inform their subscribers.

Yahoo must have been like, "We're in fucking shit!"

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RE: Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked - 1/12/2017 5:44:50 AM   
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Strange that they are denying any hacking this morning - as of about an hour ago.


So looks like I am not being naive after all!


Naive isnt what I would call it.
There is a discrepancy between nov 14th and jan 12, so I wouldnt have touched the email, but considering your location, *shrugs*
Damn slow if its not a phishing email

I would still guess that's a phishing mail riding on the back of media hype.

I got a message from Yahoo about their hacks many months ago.
I was only allowed to access each account 5 times before I was forced to change the password.

When I spoke to friendfinder earlier, they said that most of the hysteria was nothing more than hype.
From Lucy's earlier link: While a number of these claims proved to be false extortion attempts, we did identify and fix a vulnerability that was related to the ability to access source code through an injection vulnerability.
I have not had any emails from the network about any hacks that have actually compromised data - at least not mine.


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RE: Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked - 1/12/2017 6:34:12 AM   
Greta75


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Status: offline 		Again , how can they phish when there is no link? And nothing to reply to? It simply tells you to go login your account and change your password without offering you any convenient way to do it.


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RE: Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked - 1/12/2017 10:27:45 AM   
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Again , how can they phish when there is no link? And nothing to reply to? It simply tells you to go login your account and change your password without offering you any convenient way to do it.





Ever heard of a hidden attachment? Hell you can even hide code in an email, it is just one form of a worm virus.

In my line of work I have seen worms encoded in emails, images etc. Just opening the file triggers the worm and everything on your system is subject to someone else's review.

It is one of the reasons I am switching to linux, since linux does not use active-x in its programing.

Of course the other reason is that I recently purchased a radio kit that arrived today and it uses compiling language found in Debian linux. (thanks again Whoremods for the suggestion to switch from ubuntu.)



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RE: Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked - 1/12/2017 10:52:37 AM   
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Again , how can they phish when there is no link? And nothing to reply to? It simply tells you to go login your account and change your password without offering you any convenient way to do it.



Dead easy.

You can have hidden attachments (as Jeff said).
Sometimes the email itself has hidden worms/trackers/malware (I said that in post#8).

Some phishing scams ask you to click a link that looks like the legit site but isn't.
Others are more clever and just rely on you opening the email to see what it is - and the trojan is triggered.

Two years ago the BBC Click program demonstrated such a hidden worm.
All they did was to click on the email and within 20 seconds the machine was wiped and unusable.
There was nothing to see in the email at all - the one they used was completely empty.
All it needed was for the recipient to open it or see it in a preview pane, nothing else.


You don't need a link.
Some phishing emails are very clever.
Don't they tell you this stuff on the news and tech TV over there??



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RE: Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked - 1/12/2017 11:49:23 AM   
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Status: offline 		here's what i do when i get one of those sorts of messages. I ignore any and all links in the message and go to the usual site, log in normally and change my password normally. So unless they have hijacked the main site, i am good.

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RE: Looks like adultfriendfinder been hacked - 1/12/2017 12:04:27 PM   
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here's what i do when i get one of those sorts of messages. I ignore any and all links in the message and go to the usual site, log in normally and change my password normally. So unless they have hijacked the main site, i am good.

And if/when you get one of those malicious emails??
Just opening it will trigger the trojan and you won't necessarily know about it.

And if it's one of those tracker/keylogger/netbot trojans, you might not know for months.
Meanwhile, everywhere you've been, every site you login to, every username/password you use will be sent elsewhere for someone else to tamper with your online persona.
They could transfer money, wreck accounts.... anything.
And because the site itself hasn't been compromised, you'll have a damned hard job convincing them it wasn't you doing it.
And this is one of the 'nicer' ones out there.
There are many that wreck machines at the same time.

No, you won't be good - you'll have been hacked via the back door and not know it.


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