hbutz New York wrote:
a) 90% of the profiles are fake
b) The non-fake profiles use fake personal information

Among account holders identified through the leaked details include individuals with emails linked to the United States Department of Homeland Security, the FAA, the government of Augusta, Georgia; the state of Virginia and the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, DC.

One of the account holders is registered with a Navy.mil email address, and the hacked account records reveal that the person logged-on to the dating site from an IP address connected to the Navy Network Information Center in Virginia Beach, VA. A cursory Google search of that person’s name suggests they were a civilian employee of the US Navy who was married as of 2002.

Another member, who was interested in BDSM according to the data, used their official Plano, Texas city email address to open an AdultFriendFinder membership, but connected to the site while browsing from a Starbucks.

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NothingIsRealButTheGirl wrote:
https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Interesting... one of my email addresses showed up on there... from the Adobe.com hack a couple of years ago. I got the one-year subscription from LifeLock (or whatever that was) from Adobe when that one happened.

hbutz New York wrote:
a) 90% of the profiles are fake


BUT the people behind the fake profiles are all too real.
Where do you get yr '90%' from?

The Grey Forest wrote:
I read a few months ago that several Medical Facilities run by Private Health Care industry where also hacked, stealing patients information.  ~ this and the Federal Employee database that was breached which compromised 18 million individuals personal information and their families last month ~ all signs points towards China,

...but nothing is being done about it

gee, isn't technology great ?  ~  something serious is going down and the Feds aren't telling us what.

While the solution is always "change your password often" - when the reality is hackers don't use your password to gain access to the files anyway. The only one that possibly is going to be kept out by changing your password is your significant other and even that becomes less secure because now one has to record their ever-changing passwords in some insecure place to even remember them.

SAND DIAL wrote:
Kick posts '3.5 Million'.

TV says 35 million.

Kicks link has,

'Adult FriendFinder asks customers to detail their interests and, based on those criteria, matches people for sexual encounters. The site, which boasts 64 million members, claims to have "helped millions of people find traditional partners, swinger groups, threesomes, and a variety of other alternative partners." '

I didnt know straight people got outted. [wtf].

wat