Fridae 2014 Data Breach
Social Networking / Community
Fridae 2014 Data Breach
A community service in the social networking sector.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
14/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Lower: limited current risk based on data value and recency.
Data Sensitivity i
StandardExposed data is largely lower-sensitivity. Standard identity-protection precautions are advised.
35KRecords
2014Year
The Breach Risk Index (BRI) is a proprietary 0–100 score rating how dangerous a breach is right now, based on how recently the data has been circulating on the dark web and how valuable it is to attackers.
Breach Summary
In May 2014, over 25,000 user accounts were breached from the Asian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender website known as "Fridae". The attack which was announced on Twitter appears to have been orchestrated by Deletesec who claim that "Digital weapons shall annihilate all secrecy within governments and corporations". The exposed data included password stored in plain text. As this breach has been flagged as sensitive, it is not publicly searchable.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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35K records analyzed
About Fridae
Fridae is a community service in the social networking sector.
Why They Hold Your Data
Fridae is a community service in the social networking sector. Services like this typically hold activity history, email addresses, passwords, usernames through account registration and normal operations.
Recent Developments
The Fridae dataset circulated publicly; treat as part of the standing exposure landscape.
Data Points Exposed
4 verified field types
Activity History
Email Address
Password High
Username
Breach Impact
The exposure of credentials alongside personal data heightened account-takeover and reuse risk for Fridae users and drew scrutiny of its data protection.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms | • Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
Principal Risk Advisory
What this means for a principal
A social-platform breach: profile and contact-graph data supports impersonation, enrichment and social engineering. For a high-profile principal the main risk is credible impersonation and enrichment of existing exposure.
What You Should Do
- Reset any reused passwords and enable MFA on email first, then financial accounts.
- Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.
How ObscureIQ Can Help
- Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
- Exposure mapping: cross-reference the exposed identifiers against broker-available data to size and prioritize the principal's wider footprint.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
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