Fur Affinity Data Breach

What happened

In May 2016, the Fur Affinity website for people with an interest in anthropomorphic animal characters (also known as "furries") was hacked. The attack exposed 1.2M email addresses (many accounts had a different "first" and "last" email against them) and hashed passwords.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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