Joining LinkedIn, dating website eHarmony said Wednesday that it is investigating the possible theft of its members' passwords. The company, which claims it is responsible for five percent of U.S. marriages, tweeted that it is investigating the incident. According to reports, a dump on a Russian online forum that contained more than six million LinkedIn passwords, which were hashed but not salted, making them easy to crack, also contained the passwords of eHarmony users. Efforts to unscramble this list revealed that some of the passwords included "eHarmony" in them, indicating they were being used by members of the singles site.
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Threat actors who infiltrated Equinox's systems on Apr. 29 were able to exfiltrate digital files containing individuals' names, birthdates, addresses, Social Security numbers, passport numbers, driver's license or other government identification numbers, health insurance information, financial account details, treatment and diagnosis data, and/or medication details.
Infiltration of Finastra's internally hosted file transfer platform, which was only discovered earlier this month, was likely conducted through stolen credentials and has resulted in the exfiltration of customer information.
While email correspondences between the Congressional Research Service and other Library staff and certain congressional offices between January and September had been compromised, such an intrusion — which was initially reported by NBC News — did not affect the House and Senate's IT networks and respective email accounts.