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Friendfinder and their brands are run by Andrew Conru. They're quite successful; they own Penthouse. At one point he tried to buy Playboy, but Hefner wouldn't sell. They don't really have 300,000,000 accounts; there's been litigation over their fake accounts. It's probably going to turn out to be like Ashley Madison, where over 95% of the female accounts were fake.

They had a breach last year, but it wasn't as big.[1]

[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/adult-friend-finder-dating-site-known...



They don't own Penthouse. That's one of the things that's so weird about all this. They sold Penthouse.com in February -- but then still managed to lose all of its login credentials in a database breach 8 months later...

https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/11/13/2144229/hack-exposes-...


They kept a backup?


Which is usually not allowed after acquisition, exactly for reasons like this.


I thought Conru owned both Ashley Madison and AFF? Didn't some AFF info leak during the Ashley Madison hack? Or am I not remembering that correctly?


Even if there are only 3 million real accounts that's still massively problematic for people who have one.


> where over 95% of the female accounts were fake

This is definitely not the case with AFF.




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