Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-05-21 00:00:00
Affected organization: Adult Friend Finder
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Personal information relating to almost 4 million users of a worldwide online dating website adultfriendfider.com is leaked on the Dark Web by unknown hackers. Details of users' sexual preferences, along with email addresses, usernames, dates of birth, postcodes and the unique internet addresses of users' computers are compromised.