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== Security breaches ==
In May 2015, Adult FriendFinder was hacked by users associated with the [[Hell (forum)|Hell]] forums,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Stone|first1=Jeff|title=Dark Net Hacking Forum 'Hell' Returns Months After Adult Friend Finder Breach|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/dark-net-hacking-forum-hell-returns-months-after-adult-friend-finder-breach-2041513|access-date=6 August 2015|date=6 August 2015}}</ref> with the hackers stealing personal information about as many as four million of the site's users.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/05/21/adultfriendfinder-data-breach/27723329/ | title=Large online dating site AdultFriendFinder confirms data breach | work=USA Today | date=21 May 2015 | access-date=22 May 2015 | author=Snider, Mike}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://ffn.com/security-updates/faq/ |title= Security Updates FAQ |publisher= Friend Finder Networks |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151125152852/http://ffn.com/security-updates/faq/ |archive-date= 2015-11-25 |date= 2015 |access-date= 2017-09-18 }}</ref>

On November 13, 2016, it was reported that a database of usernames, e-mails, and passwords had been breached and leaked from Adult FriendFinder and other FriendFinder Networks websites. The breach included 300 million Adult FriendFinder user accounts, including account data for 15 million accounts that had supposedly been "deleted". The passwords had either been stored in plain text, or hashed without a [[Salt (cryptography)|salt]] with the obsolete and insecure [[SHA-1]] hashing algorithm.<ref name="verge-affhack16">{{cite web|title=Over 300 million AdultFriendFinder accounts have been exposed in a massive breach|url=https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/13/13615750/412-million-adultfriendfinder-accounts-exposed-breach|website=The Verge|date=13 November 2016 |access-date=13 November 2016}}</ref>