The Fappening Data Breach

What happened

In December 2015, the forum for discussing naked celebrity photos known as "The Fappening" (named after the iCloud leaks of 2014) was compromised and 179k accounts were leaked. Exposed member data included usernames, email addresses and salted hashes of passwords.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

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