People search Adult Friend Finder data breach timeline because the brand sits on billions of accounts, credentials, and cloud workloads. BreachHistory indexes 2 Adult Friend Finder-linked incidents, with headline counts up to 3.9M+ in catalog rows. This page maps every attested event through 2026 with internal links to canonical records.
Why Adult Friend Finder breach history matters
Adult Friend Finder operates in Technology. Across indexed rows, recurring themes include mixed intrusion and disclosure events. Understanding the chronological pattern helps security teams, customers, and regulators separate confirmed disclosures from forum marketing.
Full timeline through 2026
2015 — — Adult Friend Finder: The adult website Adult Friend Finder was hacked…
Cataloged incident. The adult website Adult Friend Finder was hacked and personal information posted publicly for people to see.The information included customers' email addresses, usernames, passwords, birthdays and zip codes,and sexual preferences. To date they have not yet discovered if customer credit card information was exposed.More Information: http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/22/technology/adult-friendfinder-hacked/ Exposed categories include Personal information. BreachHistory cites approximately 3.5M+ affected records in this row. See the adult-friend-finder2015 and canonical BreachHistory entry.
2015 — — Adult Friend Finder: Sexual preferences, names, email addresses,…
Cataloged incident. Sexual preferences, names, email addresses, usernames, dates of birth, postal codes BreachHistory cites approximately 3.9M+ affected records in this row. See the adult-friend-finderu and canonical BreachHistory entry.
Patterns and analysis
- Mixed intrusion and disclosure events — appears across multiple Adult Friend Finder catalog entries; prioritize controls that address this class of failure.
- Record-count hygiene — BreachHistory indexes actor-cited figures separately from company-confirmed totals; read each row's technicalWriteup before treating counts as fact.
- 2026 monitoring — New disclosures roll into this timeline as they are verified or labeled unverified per catalog policy.
What to do if you may be affected
- Step 1: Enable phishing-resistant MFA on every account tied to this brand.
- Step 2: Use unique passwords and a password manager—breach rows often involve credential reuse.
- Step 3: Monitor official company breach notices and regulator filings, not dark-web downloads.
- Step 4: Review OAuth app permissions and revoke unused third-party integrations.
- Step 5: Bookmark the Adult Friend Finder company page for new 2026+ disclosures.
Canonical BreachHistory hub
Explore every indexed row: breachhistory.com/adult-friend-finder · Latest: adult-friend-finder2015.
Sources: BreachHistory catalog (2 rows for Adult Friend Finder), company and regulator disclosures cited in individual breach records.