How I Met Your Data
summary
A forensic tour of real breaches and their abuse: a leaked stash claiming 22 billion records proves many “mother of all” dumps are misconfigured personal hoards; Adult FriendFinder exposes ~170 million accounts used for extortion; FurAffinity leaks 1.2M sensitive emails that require special handling; a marketplace sells full browser cookies and fingerprints as Genesis Market cookies leading to coordinated takedowns and ~120 arrests; multiple services leak reset tokens, bcrypt hashes and TOTP secrets allowing immediate account takeover.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Data breaches overview
- 10:32Largest breaches and shady services
- 13:41Fur Affinity breach
- 23:06Inflate vids and balloon fetish
- 27:17Sho Express anonymity
- 33:15Grindr hijacking flaw
- 38:56Spoutable API leak
- 46:44Genesis Market fingerprints
- 50:39Q&A
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