[2015-05-27] The Sexual Interests of 4 Million People Are Now on Sale

[LiteCoinGuy]

The Sexual Interests of 4 Million People Are Now on Sale for $17,000

You can now buy the private data of almost 4 million users of the hacked hook up website AdultFriendFinder for a little less than $17,000—in Bitcoin, naturally.

AdultFriendFinder, a dating site for online and real life hookups, admitted that it had been breached last week. The attack was allegedly carried out earlier this year by a hacker that goes by the name of ROR[RG], according to security researcher Bev Robb, who first wrote about the breach.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-sexual-interests-of-4-million-people-are-now-on-sale-for-17000

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[Lethn]

Too bad more than half those users will probably be fake LOL!

[bryant.coleman]

Too bad more than half those users will probably be fake LOL!

They had an affiliate program (paid around $1 for every referral), and people were creating fake profiles in their hundreds every day. I won't be surprised if 99.99% of the profiles are fake. The remaining 0.01% will be mostly religious nuts from the United States and sex-starved sheikhs from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 

[IDKwhatimdoing]

all those crazy kinks worth all that btc? no way

those guys from adult friend finder better protect their website, lol, or theyll have crap like this all the time.....

[crazyearner]

So happy I do not go on sites like it and even if I did wouldn't use real info on them due to stuff like this always happening all the time not just with their site but happens a lot of the time and governments and security wounder why identity theft and fraud is always on the rise.

[marcus_of_augustus]

So happy I do not go on sites like it and even if I did wouldn't use real info on them due to stuff like this always happening all the time not just with their site but happens a lot of the time and governments and security wounder why identity theft and fraud is always on the rise.

kind of like bitcointalk.org ... when are those details going to be for sale I wonder?

[PenguinFire]

I'll give tree fiddy for the lot of them.

[Kprawn]

I think he/she think that this information can be valueble to people who would want to use it to blackmail someone.

The guy acctually linked the people there to their Facebook accounts... Most people will pay not to have their most intimate secrets revealed.

So the person paying that money, will most probably tripple his payment, from the income he/she will get from the blackmail income.

There might even be some celebs in there... and this information would go for a LOT of money.

This is definately the lowest someone can go, to make money from other people's misfortunate situation. Lesson : Stay Away from these sites, and keep your intimate things behind your bedroom door and closed windows. 

[EternalWingsofGod]

Too bad more than half those users will probably be fake LOL!

Only half the userbase, the better question is how many are active at the site at any one time.
Strangly enough I was looking up something on that site and read the memo we have been hacked no data has been lost only to come here and see this press article.

In his most recent post, ROR[RG] also offered to “break into any company or site” for 750 Bitcoin (around $180,000) in less than a week.
(Bitcointalk the second time)
Then again a Theymos bounty probally pays more.

[bryant.coleman]

There might even be some celebs in there... and this information would go for a LOT of money.

I don't think that any of the celebrities will be stupid enough to provide real information (such as name, DOB, sexual preference.etc) on their AdultFriendFinder profiles. If anyone is that stupid (there will always be a few, with sub-60 IQ), then this will be the next "fappening" blow to the celebrities.

[EternalWingsofGod]

There might even be some celebs in there... and this information would go for a LOT of money.

I don't think that any of the celebrities will be stupid enough to provide real information (such as name, DOB, sexual preference.etc) on their AdultFriendFinder profiles. If anyone is that stupid (there will always be a few, with sub-60 IQ), then this will be the next "fappening" blow to the celebrities.

That would be the continuation of the Iphone hack
In recent news we discovered X celebrities also used AdultFriendfinder

Well just a matter of time there might be a few in there or a bunch of fake profiles that used a celeb photo / name for their profile account.

That said if the hacker was the same one that did the Iphone hack they have the data to compile fingerprints that can be used to determine what celebrities frequented both sites

If a malicious party obtained identifiable access logs for just one of the websites that know your name, and view logs for just one of the adult websites you’ve visited, it could infer with very high probability - beyond plausible deniability - a list of porn you've viewed. At any time, somebody could post a website that allows you to search anybody by email or facebook username and view their porn browsing history. All that's needed are two nominal data breaches and an enterprising teenager that wants to create havoc.

For the curious minds here wondering how it would be proven

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/your-porn-is-watching-you?trk_source=popular
http://brettpthomas.com/online-porn-could-be-the-next-big-privacy-scandal.html
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf

Not all celebrities heck very few users in general address Unique ID footprints so its possible if there is two sets to remove/reduce plausible deniability.
(Speaking of got to do some minor edits to my fonts whistle lol)