Full Adult Friend Finder database offered up for $17k worth of bitcoins

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http://www.computerworld.com/article/2925849/malware-cybercrime/full-adult-friend-finder-database-offered-up-for-17k-worth-of-bitcoins.html

By Jeremy Kirk
IDG News Service
May 24, 2015

An unredacted version of a database said to be stolen from Adult Friend 
Finder is being offered for sale for 70 bitcoins, or around $17,000.

ROR[RG], the nickname of the person who claims to have breached the large 
online hookup site, wrote on Saturday in an underground forum that "I have 
had so many people ask me to buy the db today."

Seeking to capitalize on the momentum, ROR[RG] -- who claims to live in 
Thailand -- also offered to break into any company or website for 750 
bitcoins, worth about $170,000.

Fifteen files of data purported to come from Adult Friend Finder were 
posted to an underground forum in March. The files contained 3.9 million 
email addresses and in some cases the partner preference, gender, birth 
date, state, post code, language preference and IP address of users.

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