Adult FriendFinder hacked, personal details leaked

PanARMENIAN.Net - Casual dating website Adult FriendFinder has been hacked, an investigation from Channel 4 News has found — and the personal details of millions of users have been leaked, Business Insider reports.

With 63 million global users, Adult FriendFinder is one of the largest dating and casual encounter networks online. (For reference, there were an estimated 50 million Tinder users in late 2014.) But 3.9 million users' accounts have allegedly been leaked online, and are circulating in spreadsheets on forums.

The details leaked include: Sexual preferences; Email addresses; Sexual orientation; Dates of birth; Addresses; Usernames; Whether users are "seeking extramarital affairs".

Together, these pieces of information put together a comprehensive (and potentially highly compromising) picture of the victims' lives. It's not yet clear how the data was leaked, the report says.

The leak is also highly embarrassing for Adult FriendFinder in another way. Channel 4 News analysed the data and found that almost no women actually use the adult social network. "Among the 26,939 users with a UK email address," technology producer Geoff White writes, "there are just 1,596 who identified as female: a ratio of one woman to every 16 men."