Following Data Leak, HIV Dating App's Developers Threaten Infection (csoonline.com)

itwbennett writes: Sometime before November 29, the MongoDB housing the data of Hzone, a dating app for HIV-positive singles, was exposed to the Internet. The company, displeased with having the security incident disclosed, responded to an email notification from DataBreaches.net with this threat: "Why do you want to do this? What's your purpose? We are just a business for HIV people. If you want money from us, I believe you will be disappointed. And, I believe your illegal and stupid behavior will be notified by our HIV users and you and your concerns will be revenged by all of us. I suppose you and your family members don't want to get HIV from us? If you do, go ahead." Hzone later apologized for the threat.

Comments

Re:Trading on tragedy

[lgw]

Or, you know, its just a dating site for people with HIV. HIV patients are NOT lepers, and HIV is not necessarily terminal. You won't catch HIV from being in the presence, or even being intimate with , as long as unprotected sex isn't occuring.

Leprosy isn't necessarily terminal: in fact it's curable. Like HIV, it's contagious, but not easily so (though perhaps more easily than HIV). Funny thing, prejudice.

Re:Trading on tragedy

[ls671]

I used to send notices to site admins that seem like they had been hijacked because on the requests/packets they were sending to my site. Why else would some public school site or not profit organization site try to brake into my systems unless they have been themselves compromised.

I stopped doing this because some site admins though I was the one hijacking them so now it is all for myself; don't try to help otherwise you may get in trouble.

Well, it silly but I guess this is how things work...