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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.
Ever been to the DMV lately? I'm not surprised there's only 170 total beautiful people in all of government.
On 1MM addresses, I am amazed that ONLY 170 are gov addresses, but that is not it was worded. Some people just smart enough to not enter their own email address for reason (perhaps they do not have a PC or no Internet at home), but are not smart enough or do not make their Gmail or Hotmail address.
So unless it is some seriously high member of Gov, this is absolute irrelevant information and to me that means that the rest is likely also irrelevant information.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
finally a data breach I don't need to be concerned I am included in.
Why isn't there condemnation on Slashdot for the hackers doing this?
As of the time you posted your comment (15 minutes after the story went live), there was no one on Slashdot saying the victims deserved to be punished. There was one post asking how they determined if someone was attractive enough, which is just an inquiry not a condemnation. Did you post this just assuming there would be a lot of victim shaming in the next few hours?
I for one agree there is nothing wrong with this site. I doubt I would make the cut, but what's wrong with that? When I was on Match.com (where I met my wife) I passed over many people I was not attracted to and I assume many women did the same to me. Sites that cater to a certain group, whether it be religious affinity, wealth, attractiveness, etc. don't strike me as more demeaning than the standard rituals of dating already are. They just make it more efficient.
-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
Beautiful people, ugly passwords.
640k ought to be enough for anyone.
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).
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Thank goodness all of us here at Slashdot are in the clear.
Sorry....but you know someone had to make the joke.