Date Hot Brunettes Data Breach

What happened

In January 2021, the now defunct website Date Hot Brunettes which provided a service to "Date Neglected Women Who Can Keep a Secret", suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 1.5M unique email addresses along with IP addresses, usernames, user-entered bios and MD5 password hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Date Hot Brunettes 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 Date Hot Brunettes — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.