{"id":214,"date":"2012-06-08T02:50:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T02:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2012-06-08T02:51:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T02:51:28","slug":"eharmony-paid-dating-site-passwords-hacked-poor-security-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/214\/eharmony-paid-dating-site-passwords-hacked-poor-security-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"eHarmony paid dating site passwords hacked, poor security policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The paid subscription social networking dating site eHarmony confirmed Wednesday, along with the business social networking site LinkedIn,\u00a0that its site has been hacked and member passwords have been compromised.\u00a0 According to <a title=\"Sophos\" href=\"http:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2012\/06\/06\/linkedin-confirms-hack-over-60-of-stolen-passwords-already-cracked\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sophos security reports<\/a>, more than 60% of the passwords have already been cracked.\u00a0 Tech news site Ars Technica said it found about 1.5 million of those 8 milion leaked passwords to be from eHarmony users.\u00a0 It is possible that all the passwords have been compromised and hacked from the sites\u2019 database, as Rick Redman, a security consultant for Kore Logic Security told <a title=\"Arts Technica\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2012\/06\/8-million-leaked-passwords-connected-to-linkedin\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Ars Technica<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s pretty obvious that whoever the bad guy was cracked the easy ones and then posted these, saying, \u2018These are the ones I can\u2019t crack.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EHarmony&#8217;s weak encryption policies is on heat now.\u00a0 While they are advising members how to choose strong passwords in their <a title=\"EHarmony blog\" href=\"http:\/\/advice.eharmony.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/06\/update-on-compromised-passwords\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">eHarmony blog<\/a>, they make no mention of any security measures taken by the company to increase security.\u00a0 A strong password is not much use if the website is not storing it properly.\u00a0 According to the <a title=\"Techlicious blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techlicious.com\/blog\/linkedin-eharmony-confirm-passwords-were-hacked\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Techlicious blog<\/a>, \u201cBecause eHarmony has yet to adequately address the security measures they are putting in place to protect this breach from happening again, you should consider any password and personal information you post to eHarmony as insecure.\u201d\u00a0 If you need another reason to use the all free dating site Friends Match Me instead, there&#8217;s a huge one.\u00a0 Built on <a title=\"Ultimate Web Builder software\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redesigns.org\/web-builder\" target=\"_blank\">Ultimate Web Builder software<\/a>, Friends Match Me is also a free Facebook dating app and we don\u2019t store any user passwords in the website database\u2026besides being a really cool and awesome dating site!\u00a0 &#8230;And totally FREE!!<\/p>\n<p>Related Article: <a title=\"LinkedIn, eHarmony social networking sites hacked, passwords leaked, poor security\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redesigns.org\/web-builder\/blog\/267\/linkedin-eharmony-social-networking-sites-hacked-passwords-leaked-poor-security\/\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn, eHarmony social networking sites hacked, passwords leaked, poor security<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The paid subscription social networking dating site eHarmony confirmed Wednesday, along with the business social networking site LinkedIn,\u00a0that its site has been hacked and member passwords have been compromised.\u00a0 According to Sophos security reports, more than 60% of the passwords &hellip; 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