critical severity October 16, 2016 · 1 min read

Adult FriendFinder (2016) Data Breach (2016)

If you are a customer of Adult FriendFinder (2016), here’s what’s now in circulation.

In October 2016, the adult entertainment company Friend Finder Networks suffered a massive data breach. The incident impacted multiple separate online assets owned by the company, the largest of which was the Adult FriendFinder website alleged to be "the world's largest sex & swinger community". Exposed data included usernames, passwords stored as SHA-1 hashes and 170 million unique email addresses. This incident is separate to the 2015 data breach Adult FriendFinder also suffered. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

Adult FriendFinder (2016) Data Breach (2016)

What the free scan actually returns

Sample resultyou@email.comIllustrative — not a real person

Found on people-search siteswe remove these

These listings are live, public, and legal to remove — and removing them is what we do.

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value redacted in this samplephone, household, property recordsBeenVerified

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Found in breach recordsverifiedreported — unverified

Each record is labeled: confirmed breach data, or an attacker’s claim no one has verified.

verifiedvalue redacted in this samplepassword + phone · 2024telecom breach

unverifiedvalue redacted in this sampleclaimed in ransomware listing · 2026leak-site claim

Leaked data cannot be deleted from the internet — anyone claiming otherwise is lying. Broker listings can be removed. We do the second, and show you exactly what to fix from the first.

Were you a Adult FriendFinder (2016) customer?

Adult FriendFinder (2016) is one listing. Your email is probably in others.

169.7M accounts were exposed here. Check whether yours is one — and find every other leak tied to the same address, in about 15 seconds. No account, no card.

Report details & sourcing

Severity Critical contact details only, none of them permanent

Disclosed October 16, 2016

Last reviewed July 22, 2026

Affected 169.7M

Data exposed Email addressesPasswordsSpoken languagesUsernames

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Sources: Have I Been Pwned

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