http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/11/cupid-media-hack-exposed-42m-passwords/
By Brian Krebs
Krebs on Security
November 20, 2013
An intrusion at online dating service Cupid Media earlier this year
exposed more than 42 million consumer records, including names, email
addresses, unencrypted passwords and birthdays, according to information
obtained by KrebsOnSecurity.
The data stolen from Southport, Australia-based niche dating service Cupid
Media was found on the same server where hackers had amassed tens of
millions of records stolen from Adobe, PR Newswire and the National White
Collar Crime Center (NW3C), among others.
The purloined database contains more than 42 million entries in the format
shown in the redacted image below. I reached out to Cupid Media on Nov. 8.
Six days later, I heard back from Andrew Bolton, the company’s managing
director. Bolton said the information appears to be related to a breach
that occurred in January 2013.
“In January we detected suspicious activity on our network and based upon
the information that we had available at the time, we took what we
believed to be appropriate actions to notify affected customers and reset
passwords for a particular group of user accounts,” Bolton said. “We are
currently in the process of double-checking that all affected accounts
have had their passwords reset and have received an email notification.”
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