PlentyOfFish hacked, 30M records stolen

[Robert Maxwell]

I think some people here use this site, so you might want to be aware that it has been hacked and about 30 million users' records were stolen. I have an account there that I haven't touched in some time, and I used a throwaway password for it. I would suggest that if you were a user of that site, if you used the same password anywhere else you should probably change it ASAP on those sites.

 

[Kemaiku]

Ah, the perils of internet dating...

 

[Robert Maxwell]

"The perils of shitty security" is more accurate. They stored people's passwords in plain text, for crying out loud.

 

[Kemaiku]

Well the people are already making themselves look stupid in public so why not.

 

[Lindley]

I'm not particularly surprised. This is a site which would include your password in every new matches email as a "reminder".

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I'm not particularly surprised. This is a site which would include your password in every new matches email as a "reminder".

Yeah, the guy running the site may have meant well but he didn't (and still doesn't, apparently) know decent security from a hole in the ground.

 

[RJDiogenes]

30 million...?

 

[Captain_Nick]

29.99 million were blokes

 

[Arrqh]

According to the rambling and blame dodging blog that PoF's owner put up, only 345 accounts were stolen so the whole +30m database wasn't copied off. The blog post is also a pretty awesome conspiracy theory though.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Russians?

 

[Amaris]

29.99 million were blokes

Which includes the 15 million registered women.

(I kid, I kid!)

 

[Captain_Nick]

+ 1

 

[Quantum_Penguin]

Thanks for the heads up. I'd almost forgotten I had a profile there. *delete*

 

[Starbreaker]

Okay... I was wondering why I was forced to change my password the other day. The only thing that's private anyway is my income level...

 

[PKTrekGirl]

Only one of about a billion reasons why I would never do internet dating.

 

[sonak]

that's very sad to hear. sometimes the world is a very dark and disturbing place.

 

[TheBrew]

Only one of about a billion reasons why I would never do internet dating.

It's not that bad. I am sort of glad that they do send you your password as I had forgotten what I used with it. Good thing it was a throw away password.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I'd never heard of that site.

Is it at least one or two steps above itsnottoolate.com ?