Dating site passwords stolen

42 million unencrypted passwords leaked from hacked online dating site Cupid Media

EHarmony, the popular online dating site, was the target of a password hacking attack that resulted in 1. The attack is believed to be by the same hacker who stole 6. The hacker posted two lists containing the 8 million passwords on the website insidepro. The larger list contained some passwords LinkedIn has now confirmed as belonging to its social network. EHarmony has confirmed that some of its passwords were stolen. The company announced the news in a blog, but did not say how many passwords were stolen. The dating site reset passwords for compromised accounts and emailed those users with instructions on how to reset their passwords. The user posted the list of hashed passwords online and asked peers for help cracking them. Ars Technica reports that only about 98, passwords are still secure. Ars Technica reports that the lists only contains passwords and not actual logins, which makes the passwords useless even if cracked, but in all likelihood, the hacker also has the logins.

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Back to Blog. Staying on top of the latest password security methods can sometimes feel like one big game of whack-a-mole. The truth is that cybersecurity is an ongoing, ever-evolving practice. Part of that practice is staying up-to-date on all the tactics criminals use to get into your systems. Using this list, we hope you can create a strong web of strategies and tools to help secure your business from a broad spectrum of attacks. These types of phishing scams are one of the most common ways hackers use to steal your passwords.

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One way or another, passwords are always in the news. For end users, they are as low-tech as security tech ever gets. Of course, that ubiquity and simplicity is precisely what makes passwords attractive to thieves. In this post, we take a look at how hackers steal our passwords and what we can do to stop them.

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7 Ways Hackers Steal Your Passwords

In July , an unknown person or group calling itself "The Impact Team" announced they had stolen the user data of Ashley Madison , a commercial website billed as enabling extramarital affairs. The hacker s copied personal information about the site's user base and threatened to release users' names and personal identifying information if Ashley Madison would not immediately shut down. As evidence of the seriousness of the threat, the personal information of more than 2, users was initially released. The company initially denied that its records were insecure, but it continued to operate.

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