Over the weekend it was announced that over 339 million names, addresses and phone numbers of registered users at the AdultFriendFinder website, an adult social media site, were hacked.  All these records are now owned by cybercriminals, exposing highly sensitive and personal information.

These cyber attackers are going to exploit this in many ways, sending spam, phishing and possibly blackmail messages, using social engineering tactics to make people click on links or open infected attachments. Also, passwords used on other accounts that are the same password as adultfriendfinder.com should be assumed to be compromised as well.

Be on the lookout for threatening email messages which slip through spam filters that have anything to do with AdultFriendFinder, delete them IMMEDIATELY!  Always remember to exercise caution when opening emails from unknown senders.