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

Posted by msmash on from the security-blues dept.

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.

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  1. Beautiful people in government? by magarity · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ever been to the DMV lately? I'm not surprised there's only 170 total beautiful people in all of government.

  2. BeautifulPeople, whew, by OffTheLip · · Score: 5, Funny

    finally a data breach I don't need to be concerned I am included in.

  3. Re:Why are things like this tolerated? by david_thornley · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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
  4. Beautiful People? by ERJ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thank goodness all of us here at Slashdot are in the clear.

    Sorry....but you know someone had to make the joke.