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accounts for Adult Friend Finder and penthouse comm have been hacked in one of the largest personal data breaches of all time more than 400 million accounts were exposed for several sites dealing with adult dating and pornography all owned by friend finder networks the data monitoring firm leaked source brought light to the breach which could this even included nearly 16 million deleted accounts that were never purged from the company's data the friends finder company was sloppy with security which led to almost every account password being cracked by hackers revealing user names email addresses passwords dates of last visits IP addresses and site membership status this also included accounts from the website scams calm eye cams comm and strip show comm hacking a network like this has deeper effects than simply causing members to worry about changing their passwords because membership backs could be used to embarrass extort or hurt users some of the exposed data has been verified as authentic by ZDNet that's seen at sister site this is not the first time Adult Friend Finder has been hacked in May of 2015 the personal data of more than four million users was exposed along with their sexual preferences it appears the company did not do enough to beef up security since that attack to stop it from happening again the only data breach bigger than this was the Yahoo hack from 2014 which compromised about 500 million accounts I'm Bridget Carey you can stay on top the biggest tech stories at cnet.com slash