Personal Data Leak Monitor

Fling data breach

40.8M accounts from Fling (fling.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
March 10, 2011
Accounts
40,767,652
Added to the database
May 28, 2016

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What leaked

Dates of birthEmail addressesGendersGeographic locationsIP addressesPasswordsPhone numbersSexual fetishesSexual orientationsUsernamesWebsite activity

What to do now

  1. Please change that password, and anywhere you reused it
  2. If your birthday is a PIN, kindly change it
  3. Do not tap links in emails claiming to be that service
  4. Be alert to fake delivery or unpaid-bill texts and calls
  5. Verify you have not reused that login anywhere

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About this breach

In 2011, the self-proclaimed "World's Best Adult Social Network" website known as Fling was hacked and more than 40 million accounts obtained by the attacker. The breached data included highly sensitive personal attributes such as sexual orientation and sexual interests as well as email addresses and passwords stored in plain text.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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