Over 1M BeautifulPeople Dating Site User Details Leak Online (thenextweb.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Personal information of over one million users stored by popular dating site BeautifulPeople has leaked, and is now accessible online. We already knew that BeautifulPixel.com was hacked (it happened in November 2015), but this is the first confirmation from a security researcher that the details are legitimate. (BeautifulPeople had downplayed it at the time, saying that it was a staging server, and not a production server, that was hacked.) Security researcher Troy Hunt, citing a source, noted that the data has been sold online. The leaked personal information include email addresses, phone numbers, as well as hair color, weight, job and other details.Troy also noted that of the 1.1 million users details,170 of them have government email addresses. Some of you may remember BeautifulPixel as the creator the "Shrek" virus.

Comments

Re:What is the relevance of the gov adresses?

[Anonymous Coward]

You realize that the government employs millions of people who are neither elected nor appointed, who still have .gov email addresses to conduct business with... right?

Re:Why are things like this tolerated?

[david_thornley]

I assume that some of the sites I share information with are secure.

I don't care if Wikileaks publicizes all the information on my Slashdot and Facebook accounts, and goes through several other data sources. I assume that Facebook, in particular, is completely insecure, so nothing I don't want on the front page of tomorrow's New York Times goes on it.

However, I have accounts that I really don't want public. I don't want anyone getting into my bank accounts and doing anything with my money (I actually don't care if they know what I spend money on). I use my account on my health care provider's site fairly frequently, and although there's stuff I don't care if anyone knows (I'm going in for a sleep study looking for apnea on Wednesday, for example) there's stuff I really don't want to discuss in public (examples withheld).