Did you hear about the Adult Friend Finder data breach? Of course you did, it’s all over the news [1] [2] and it is getting major attention due to the spicy nature of the content.
The online adult service was breached and 3.8 million accounts became public.
The information including sexual preference, marital status and other personal data (such as, date of birth, email addresses and postal/home addresses) are now all publicly available.
Well, we have seen data breaches before, but how is this data breach a little bit different??
Up to now, every article I read online about this incident treats it as yet another data breach, without paying any attention to the effects such a data breach will bring to people. Let us see the issues that come to mind, one by one in the following lines.
The online adult service was breached and 3.8 million accounts became public.
The information including sexual preference, marital status and other personal data (such as, date of birth, email addresses and postal/home addresses) are now all publicly available.
Well, we have seen data breaches before, but how is this data breach a little bit different??
Up to now, every article I read online about this incident treats it as yet another data breach, without paying any attention to the effects such a data breach will bring to people. Let us see the issues that come to mind, one by one in the following lines.