Dating Site For Cheaters Hacked: Some User Data Already Published

[engine]

Apparently, the business owners have 37 Million users across the properties.

Site users must be more than a little concerned over this intrusion.

The hackers said they had obtained information including "all the customers' secret sexual fantasies and matching credit card transactions".

The site's operator confirmed there had been an "intrusion" but not its extent.

One security expert said a small percentage of the site's user account data had been published online. Dating Site For Cheaters Hacked: Some User Data Already Published [bbc.co.uk]

[Leosghost]

divorce lawyers are going to be busy..

[engine]

hehehehe, that's one way of looking at it.

[lawman]

I asked Mrs. Lawman if she was going to check the list. She said "No, you don't have the energy."

[lucy24]

secret sexual fantasies

I wish I could figure out whether this means that Person A is really good at analyzing data, or Person B doesn't understand what "secret" means.

[engine]

According to reports, almost 10gb of data is now online, and has been confirmed as the real data. Besides the embarrassment that some may suffer, the data also includes credit cards and email details.

[krebsonsecurity.com...]

[tangor]

... and encrypted passwords that you can bet are already being busily cracked.

Of the 15,000 US government email addresses so far identified, the majority are in the nation's capitol. Whodathunk? ;)

[engine]

I heard that a good number of people were using their work email addresses to interact with the site.

According to the latest news on this, the hackers have over 300gb of data, and they said, "Nobody was watching. No security." There's a lesson for us all.