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Adult FriendFinder Hacked - Federal Employees Allegedly Among 3.5 Million 'Exposed'
Just two short weeks ago we explained what happened to Tinder's predecessor, Adult FriendFinder, which was a website whose sole purposes was finding, to put it bluntly, a fuck buddy. Just like Tinder currently under IAC's wing, we explained, back in 2011 when the early stages of the current
gargantuan tech bubble were only taking shape, nobody could hide their
enthusiasm about the stock.
So imagine our shock when we see today that Adult FriendFinder has been hacked and, as CNN reports, more than 3.5 million people’s sexual preferences, fetishes and secrets have been exposed...
But it gets better, as Liberty Blitzkrieg's Mike Krieger explains, accusations are emerging that Federal employees used it from government emails.
Before I get into the meat of this story, let’s briefly cover the background of the Adult FriendFinder hack. From CNN:
More than 3.5 million people’s sexual preferences, fetishes and secrets have been exposed after dating site Adult FriendFinder was hacked.
Already, some of the adult website’s customers are being identified by name.
Adult FriendFinder asks customers to detail their interests and, based on those criteria, matches people for sexual encounters. The site, which boasts 64 million members, claims to have “helped millions of people find traditional partners, swinger groups, threesomes, and a variety of other alternative partners.”
The information Adult FriendFinder collects is extremely personal in nature. When signing up for an account, customers must enter their gender, which gender they’re interested in hooking up with and what kind of sexual situations they desire. Suggestions AdultFriendfinder provides for the “tell others about yourself” field include, “I like my partners to tell me what to do in the bedroom,” “I tend to be kinky” and “I’m willing to try some light bondage or blindfolds.”
I don’t relish in the fact that people’s private information is being exposed in this manner; however, if federal employees are using the site via government email addresses, that is newsworthy.
Andrew Auernheimer, a controversial computer hacker who looked through the files, used Twitter to publicly identify Adult FriendFinder customers, including a Washington police academy commander, an FAA employee, a California state tax worker and a naval intelligence officer who supposedly tried to cheat on his wife.
Asked why he was doing this, Auernheimer said: “I went straight for government employees because they seem the easiest to shame.”
Millions of others remain unnamed for now, but anyone can open the files — which remain freely available online. That could allow anyone to extort Adult FriendFinder customers.
Again, I don’t get any pleasure in the public shaming of people for these sorts of things, but RT adds the following to the story:
The men behind the screen names “Eaglesfan_6969” and “Verywilling2011” are looking for sex, and they’re doing it from government-provided email accounts, according to data pilfered from a hacked dating website.
A trove of personal information pertaining to paid account holders of AdultFriendFinder, a website that touts itself as letting users “Find a fuck buddy for online sex,” has surfaced, and its contents suggest employees of local and federal agencies, including law enforcement, the Navy and the Federal Aviation Administration have used their government-provided email addresses to search for partners.
Among account holders identified through the leaked details include individuals with emails linked to the United States Department of Homeland Security, the FAA, the government of Augusta, Georgia; the state of Virginia and the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, DC.
DHS guidelines prohibit employees from using their government email for “Engaging in any activity that would discredit DHS, including seeking, transmitting, collecting or storing defamatory, discriminatory, obscene, harassing or intimidating messages or material.” The Pentagon says in a 2013 report that “Federal Government communication systems and equipment (including Government-owned telephones, facsimile machines, electronic mail, Internet systems and commercial systems when the federal Government pays for use) shall be for official use and authorized purposes only.” There is an exemption in place for “morale and welfare” communications by employees on extended deployments.
If true, I’m sure nothing will happen to them, as federal employees, like bankers, are essentially above the law.
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Given this, however, one wonders just how exuberant IAC is over its valuation of Tinder now? ...and how fast people will be logging off...
Still, all that really matters for the current generation of sophisticated
investors is eyeballs (or in this case some other anatomical organ).
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Fuck you very much ,Crocodile. Feel better now?? Great, now piss off.
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...even the hooker business is getting tight.
Lucky u. I gotta go to the airport and be molested by a kinky TSA government agent before I can get any lovin' over in Holland.
just wait till the TSA body scan images database gets hacked.
DutchBoy: They are Americans. The Bible will not allow them to look at real kinky woman. Thanks for the link. I will have a good, long look. We also have nude beaches in my country and very good "prostituen markenplaats"-sites ;-)
Have a good day.
Back to topic: Who cares if Dave or Jim like handcuffs and assholes? WHO CARES? Shame? As long as they are not pedophiles let them have fun and cheat on their wifes. Pedophiles are sitting in the UK government, THAT is worrying. Not some Joe Schmuck from Virginia who is bored with Missionary style position...
There is only one Long Duck Dong.
Unlike Lois Lerner's emails; these will not "magically" disappear...never let a good crisis go to waste...see the IRS takes preserving email seriously and now we fire the little people to prove it.
Stop Talkin' and Start Chalkin'
- Seems like some politically Sympatico Hackers would want to swoop in for the kill about now
- Wanted few hundred Federal Employees for Whistleblowing and Anonymous Tips for Internet Watchdogs and Independent Reporting
Treasury, Jack Lew
SEC, Mary Jo White
CFTC, Timothy Massad
Fed, Janet Yellen
OCC, Thomas J. Curry
CFPB, Richard Cordray
FDIC, Martin Gruenberg
FHFA, Mel Watt
NCUA, Debbie Matz
Insurance, S. Roy Woodall, Jr.
DOJ Loretta Lynch
Former Presidential Speakers
Disgraced State Department Employees
All Minions of Federal Regulating Agencies
This problem is overstated, since 500,000 of those accounts were aliases of Bill Clinton, routed through the Clinton family’s private email server.
I like SmokinDaddy the best.
you know, the F.O.B....as they used to call Bubba's circle..
The rest were aliases of Huma's hubby, the Weiner dog that wanted to be Mayor of Gotham, and The billionaire pal of Bubba who has that old perv fantasy island..
Emily23 has fabulous tits!!!
I like big tits.
Is that a fetish?
Or just, you know, normal?
I swear I don't know anymore.
For fuck's sake adult babies is a thing...
{a hilarious one, too!}
Any bets on whether this article or posts disappear over the weekend.
I guess it is all out there now. Maybe more to be posted by Blake and Andrew in Twitter.
RT did a story with the facts. Can't disappear.
Here’s ***** listing on the DOJ website:
Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys
Operations
600 E Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20530
Attn: ******
*****, who is listed as “security administration” on government salary data, makes $99,000 a year.
We know ***** accessed the account from 206.53.147.***, which is on the blackberry network and that he’s using a BlackBerry email as well.
We’ve reached out to ****** ***** and will update this post should he respond.
Best way to get laid on the internet is to pose as an adventurous nine year old lad on VaticanMeet.com
Or so I've heard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBWwEfXPHSw
The sugar daddy files would be interesting too.
I tapped Emily. And I didn't have to pay extra for the parasitic twin growing out of her shoulder.
“I went straight for government employees because they seem the easiest to shame.”
That's a joke, right? You cannot shame government workers.
Calling them "workers" is itself a euphemism.
Curb Your Enthusiasm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2KjDeAbkYk
Whoops that War Hawk just pulled a wild weasel out of his shorts.
But he said it was something else.
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... __ ... _ .... _ ... _ ... _
.. / . \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/. \ Hey Rocky!
. | ........ _|@ @ __ ....... | Watch me pull a rabbit
..\_______/ | | \_______/ out of my hat!
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Totally stolen.
Emily you may only be a kilometer from here, but at my age we're world's apart. Still, my number is 555-5555 if you're interested honey.
Government workers HAVE TO GOOF OFF. They don't get paid more for getting more productive. They only get paid more for "rising" to "be responsible for" more "staff". And they aren't given more staff as long as they get their work done. So, to get more pay, government workers MUST goof off, and MUST say they can't get their work done, and MUST demand more staff.
Of course, goofing off gets very boring. Thus, ADULT FRIEND FINDER.
There is one other trick, and that is to increase the "paperwork" and other B.S. until it consumes all available time. Then this "work" really "can't" be done. But it's not really "work" at all, since it's not productive, and real work is production.
Dup
Anyone who uses anything other than a prepaid debit card registered in a fake name for this sort of thing needs to get their head checked.
The big one, not the little one.
Clearly, Emily is one of the many high school senior girls who asked for, and received, breast implants for graduation. You folks remember several years ago, implants were the no. 1 gift asked for at high school graduation time. btw, just checked my ZH account info, which I never do, and it said I'd been a member for 5yrs. 10 months. Now that's a good one because I've been posting here for like 8 years or so. Who's messing wi' my shit? ABC...defghij... Anyhow, yeah, this story's too funny. I've been wanting to blackmail a government bigwig for awhile now. Online sex? How boring. "Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby, ain't nothing like the real thing."
Hold on. Zerohedge was founded in 2009 so posting here for 8 years is not possible.
That reminds me of someone who was caught trolling on ZH and said he only recently signed up but was following ZH since 2005.
I don't think you are one of those but posting for 'like 8 years or so' on ZH is not possible.
She has hands? LOL
Well they did say they were taking the company public.
Government employees are easier to 'shame' because they use their work computers to hit these porn and dating web sites.
Nice hooters
Hi Emily. I like what you conceal and carry. Coffee?
felons and their predator friends want your personal information
.
call the FBI
.
before they make it up
Company stocks have gone arear and it's gonna be a 'Bordello of Blood'.
TIL: The average ZHer is not just stupid but sexually starved too.
Good retards of ZH, get out of your mom's basement once in a while, there is a world outside of pron videos and ZH articles. :)
A man who spends the better part of his waking day with his penis in one hand and his mouse in the other is not something I would suspect a gentleman of quality would want to be compared to.
Here's a question for those playing along at home... if the .gov tax-eaters whose info got grabbed form AdultFriendFinder are targets for blackmail and other hi-jinks... what does that imply for the 5200 Pentagon employees who used their .mil (and .cia.gov, and .dhs.gov) e-mails as their login for the paedo network whose database was liberated by Anonymous a while back (see, for example, this CNN report).
Bear in mind, the Pentagon staffers didn't just use their .gov credentials to try to get their dick wet in perfectly consensual ways... they used their .gov emails to purchase child porn.
And of course nobody went to jail, or got demoted, or got investigated.
But you can bet your life that everyone who was on that list, is now the bitch of a foreign government's clandestine service (mention no names, but they tend to tie boxes to their heads and rock back and forth like mental patients, mumbling primitive gibberish).
It's a fetish when you're straight. It's a lifetstyle if you're gay.
Only in the land of the hypocrits. LOL. Board of directors by day, sticking stuff up their butts and fondling kids at night.
Company was in a downtrend for a long time. Maybe they got paid to be hacked.
"Masculine man wanted to wear panties and makeup. Must like to be whipped, humilated,blood play,bondage, and take my huge black strapon up his ass". Hillary.
Wow. These government employees behaved like any group of employees that were poorly managed by a pack of Luciferian Technocrats...They exhibit all of the good and decadent behaviour of a human.They are just like us...
The honeypot of database mining. Serves them right. Hope they get hosed in divorce court and get bombarded with advertising for ISIS brides marriage site emails.
You never profile yourself over the Internet. A sucker is born every day.
No different than Facebook.
Facebook CIA connectionhttp://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DIGdWsxHJlM&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DDIGd...
There sure are a K2 mountain of ills, tragedies, disasters, bombing of aspirin factories killing innocent people, broken homes, single mother households, Kate Winslut's three kids by 3 different fathers and working on the 4th and 5th fathers now, and a virulent coarseness running thru our lives 366/24/7, that befall human beans all because of s-e-x.
Really. Doesn't anyone else think that sex is vastly overrated??
(With the sole exception of that which I might engage in with Sofia Vergara, Doutzen Kroes, or any one of the SI Swimsuit models, current and past and Brooklyn Decker).
Yeah, so...someone still pays for porn hookups? Guess so. PT Barnum knew a thing or two...big lies sell.