Data breach

Wife Lovers data breach

1,274,051 accounts · breached October 7, 2018

Have I Been Pwned treats this breach as sensitive: it does not reveal publicly whether a particular address is in it. Only the owner of an address can check, after verifying it.

What happened

In October 2018, the site dedicated to posting naked photos and other erotica of wives Wife Lovers suffered a data breach. The underlying database supported a total of 8 different adult websites and contained over 1.2M unique email addresses. Wife Lovers acknowledged the breach which impacted names, usernames, email and IP addresses and passwords hashed using the weak DEScrypt algorithm. The breach has been marked as "sensitive" due to the nature of the site.

Description by Have I Been Pwned

What data leaked

  • Email addresses
  • IP addresses
  • Names
  • Passwords
  • Usernames

What to do if you had an account

  1. Change the password. Change your password on this service. If you used the same password anywhere else, change it there too: attackers try leaked email and password pairs on other sites automatically. A password manager makes one unique password per site practical.
  2. Turn on two-step sign-in. Enable two-factor authentication where the service offers it, preferably with an authenticator app or a passkey. A leaked password alone is then not enough to get in.
  3. Expect targeted phishing. Leaked contact details are used to write convincing fake messages that mention the breached company or your real name. Do not click links in unexpected emails or texts about this account; go to the site by typing its address.

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