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9 years ago
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FurAffinity Attack Update (Feel free to copy & paste this into a journal of your own):
There have been 2x confirmed data breaches on Furaffinity in the last year. They are;
August 2015: 1,270,564 accounts breached (Email, Usernames, Hashed Passwords)
May 2016: 1,250,000+ accounts (Email, Usernames, Hashed Passwords)
A vast number of accounts from FA have now been leaked on the darkweb. The payload is alleged to contain Usernames, E-Mails, Passwords.
The passwords are in salted MD5 hash format from what I can gather, and MD5 is an outdated algorithm and can in some cases be converted back in to the original password string. (Using rainbow tables and reference points)
So I highly recommend changing passwords and unlinking social media accounts on your FA profiles.
And please, PLEASE, use a unique password for every site. This is incredibly important. In this day and age, you cannot expect to use just one password everywhere and think you're safe. It will only be a matter of time until your password is leaked in something like this, and anybody could gain access to any of your other accounts that use the same password.
I, for one, won't be on here that much. Twitter is where to catch me!
There have been 2x confirmed data breaches on Furaffinity in the last year. They are;
August 2015: 1,270,564 accounts breached (Email, Usernames, Hashed Passwords)
May 2016: 1,250,000+ accounts (Email, Usernames, Hashed Passwords)
A vast number of accounts from FA have now been leaked on the darkweb. The payload is alleged to contain Usernames, E-Mails, Passwords.
The passwords are in salted MD5 hash format from what I can gather, and MD5 is an outdated algorithm and can in some cases be converted back in to the original password string. (Using rainbow tables and reference points)
So I highly recommend changing passwords and unlinking social media accounts on your FA profiles.
And please, PLEASE, use a unique password for every site. This is incredibly important. In this day and age, you cannot expect to use just one password everywhere and think you're safe. It will only be a matter of time until your password is leaked in something like this, and anybody could gain access to any of your other accounts that use the same password.
I, for one, won't be on here that much. Twitter is where to catch me!
Zyozz
~zyozz
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