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- Over 1m dating site user details leak online – and they include 170 government addresses
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Monday, 25 April 2016
Over one million users details stored by dating site BeautifulPeople.com are now accessible online, following a hack at the end of last year. While the intrusion itself isn’t news – it’s been known about since November 2015 – this is the first confirmation from a security researcher that the details obtained were indeed legitimate in many cases. The dating site previously said that it had taken place on a test server and that it “was a staging server and not part of our production database.” According to Troy Hunt, a security researcher who runs HaveIBeenPwned (a site dedicated to letting people see if…
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