Report: 400 million adult site accounts hacked, and your password is lousy

For the last time, "123456" is not an okay password, people.

The sex and dating site AdultFriendFinder has been hacked for the second time (that we know of), according to the breach notification website LeakedSource, and the world's truly lousy password habits have again been exposed in the process.

The breach reportedly occurred in October, with more than 400 million accounts from over two decades now leaked. In addition to Adultfriendfinder.com, user information from sites like Stripshow.com and Penthouse.com was also dumped online.

The California-based Friend Finder Networks, AdultFriendFinder's parent company, claims that 700 million people engage with at least one of their sites. User data from its property Cam.com, "one of the largest providers of live model webcams in the world," was also included in the hack. Read more...