ShellCodeX Breach Report
Adult FriendFinder (2016) Data Breach
adultfriendfinder.com
Verified breach
Sensitive
Passwords exposed
Accounts exposed
169,746,810
Breach date
16 Oct 2016
Added to tracker
06 Feb 2020
Data classes
4
What happened
In October 2016, the adult entertainment company Friend Finder Networks suffered a massive data breach. The incident impacted multiple separate online assets owned by the company, the largest of which was the Adult FriendFinder website alleged to be "the world's largest sex & swinger community". Exposed data included usernames, passwords stored as SHA-1 hashes and 170 million unique email addresses. This incident is separate to the 2015 data breach Adult FriendFinder also suffered. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Exposed data
Email addresses
Passwords
Spoken languages
Usernames
Recommended actions
- Change your Adult FriendFinder (2016) password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
- Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
- Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Adult FriendFinder (2016) — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
- Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.
Am I affected?
Check whether your email address appears in this breach.
Check on HIBP
