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Wife Lovers data breach (2018)

In October 2018, the site dedicated to posting naked photos and other erotica of wives Wife Lovers suffered a data breach. The underlying database supported a total of 8 different adult websites and contained over 1.2M unique email addresses.

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Wife Lovers
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1.3M
SectorTechnology

Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2018-10-07, Wife Lovers was affected by a data breach. Approximately 1,274,051 accounts were exposed. In October 2018, the site dedicated to posting naked photos and other erotica of wives Wife Lovers suffered a data breach. The underlying database supported a total of 8 different adult websites and contained over 1.2M unique email addresses.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#WifeLovers
  2. wifelovers.comhttps://wifelovers.com

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