FreeOnes Data Breach

What happened

In February 2017, the forum for the adult website FreeOnes suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 960k unique email addresses alongside usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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