Dating site hacks

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Hackers have stolen email addresses, direct messages, and other personal data from users of two dating websites, according to a data breach expert. Earlier this week, someone alerted Troy Hunt, the founder and maintainer of the data breach alerting website Have I Been Pwned , that hackers had breached two dating websites, CityJerks and TruckerSucker. The stolen passwords are scrambled with a weak algorithm that could potentially be broken and allow hackers to see the actual passwords. Hunt said that the tipster told him the breach was advertised on a hacking forum. TechCrunch independently verified that the data stolen from CityJerks and TruckerSucker is being advertised on the forum. In a post advertising the data stolen from TruckerSucker, the seller claims the database contains information on 8, users. In the post about CityJerks, the seller claims the database contains data from 77, users.

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ABC and Hulu are teaming up this summer to provide true crime fans with some incredible docuseries, and the first to premiere is The Ashley Madison Affair, which does a deep dive into the controversial dating site Ashley Madison and its hack. Ashley Madison, which got its name by combining the most popular girls names of , is not like your casual Tinder or Bumble because, unlike most people on those sites, the clients of Ashley Madison are already married. Noel Biderman took out a full page ad in the New York Post criticising the governor for paying for sex instead of using a service like Ashley Madison.

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A well-known hacker has leaked the details of more than 2. Here is a step-by-step guide to reducing your digital footprint online, whether you want to lock down data or vanish entirely. The dating site's data has been shared as a free download on a publicly accessible hacking forum known for its trade in hacked databases. The content of this file includes a wealth of information that users provided when they set up profiles on the MeetMindful site and mobile apps. Messages exchanged by users were not included in the leaked file; however, this does not make the entire incident less sensitive.

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How Hackable Is Your Dating App?

Your next partner could be just a swipe away! Online dating, while certainly more popular and acceptable now than it was a decade ago, can be risky. Could this person be a predator?

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