Dating site hack reveals sexual secrets of 4 million users

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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/dating-site-hack-reveals-sexual-secrets-of-4-million-users-10268933.html

By Dan Sung
The Independent
22 May 2015

A hacker has exposed the personal and sexual details of nearly 4 million 
users on one of the world-leading dating sites.

The details lifted from the database of Adult FriendFinder include the 
information of previous members who had previously deleted their accounts. 
The specifics of the illegally mined data are around sexual orientation, 
sexual preferences and even whether or not members of the service are 
already with partners but looking for extramarital affairs.

A Channel 4 News investigation traced the discovery to a forum where a 
hacker known as ROR[RG] posted the information which also includes names, 
email addresses, postcodes, dates of birth, computer IP addresses and just 
about everything else short of credit card details.

More than 7 million of Adult FriendFinder's 63-million-user worldwide 
community are British and, of 3.9 million accounts leaked, "dozens" are 
linked to UK government and armed service addresses.

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