One million dating site accounts spilled

Over one million user data site BeautifulPeople.com is freely available on the internet, after a hack that took place at the end of 2015.

The breach is not news, as it has been known since November 2015. But today a security researcher announced the leak and confirmed that the found are true in many cases. Data Leak dating site

The dating site had reported in 2015 that the hack had taken place on a test server and that “the data was not that of the normal site.”

According to Troy Hunt, a security researcher who runs the HaveIBeenPwned (a site dedicated to people who want to see if their data is available online), the data has already been sold, although it does not know who or how much , according to Forbes.

The data includes email addresses and sensitive information, such as phone numbers, and more "innocent" items such as body type, hair color, weight, work, etc.

This information should be quite convenient for those who are trying to carry out social engineering attacks.

It is noted that among the data that by 1,1 users, there are also 170 government email addresses (.gov).

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