Online Personals Watch: News on the Online Dating Industry and Business: AdultFriendFinder
Read more about adultfriendfinder here. Originated in the United States, this dating platform helps its users find suitable sex partners through its many contacting features and functionality. If sexting internationally sounds like it would wet your whistle, iHookup can get you in touch with a load of flirty people in other timezones. The title is much more explicit, but the main page encourages “casual dating based on physical attraction” rather than mentioning the words “horny” and “sex” multiple times. FriendFinder originally started as a mainstream social networking site when it was founded in 1996 by Andrew Conru, then a Ph.D. student at Stanford University. Over the next few years, the company quickly adapted to consumer preferences and branched out into over twenty different social media and dating-related verticals. Last year’s breach also included users’ dates of birth, postal codes, sexual preferences, and whether they were seeking extramarital affairs. Eighteen months after 4 million of its users’ accounts were exposed, adult dating and pornography company Friend Finder Networks (FFN) has been hit by another doxing attack — this one a hundred times larger. Over 412 million accounts — including 16 million “deleted” accounts — were leaked from FFN sites, including AdultFriendFinder.com, Penthouse.com, Stripshow.com, Cams.com, and iCams.com. I can assure anyone reading this that AFF is almost a complete waste of time. It’s outdated, very “buggy”, the IM feature doesnt work well, the live webcamming has been taken over by women who want to be paid, i.e. no different than Chaturbate, etc – and the absurd “new features” such as “Buzzmode” don’t even make sense. This is not the first time Adult Friend Network has been hacked. In May 2015 the personal details of almost four million users were leaked by hackers, including their login details, emails, dates of birth, post codes, sexual preferences and whether they were seeking extramarital affairs. Once on the member’s profile page, scroll down to the middle of the page to find the email form “Send user an email” or click the “Send an email” link located in the “Interact” section. AdultFriendFinder works on a membership system so that they can keep data files that contain its members’ profile information. Guests may enter the site and browse the listings. However, to post a listing and use its many features, you must become a member first. If you’ve forgotten your password for your AdultFriendFinder account, click “Forgot Password” and enter your username or email address on the bar.
- Here is what the listings look like.
- Most have the same general idea, which is to find sexual partners, have cyber sex, etc, but with names like those, the authenticity is way too questionable.
- Although the size of the breach is far greater, the nature of the data is less intimate than the previous FFN breach.
Penthouse bought FriendFinder Networks in 2007 for $500M, filing for an IPO in 2008. They hoped to raise $460M but only had $220M by 2010, which Conru bought back and has been the company’s chairman since 2013. He has been dating online for 20 years and has never been married. He has no plans on settling down.
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