May 09, 2017

Dating site users spammed with smut after ‘third-party’ data leak

The publisher's blaming a third-party contractor and "human error."

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May 03, 2017

Tinder orders researcher to remove dataset of 40,000 profile pictures

Faces scraped from Tinder were being used to train artificial intelligence, according to the researcher

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March 30, 2017

Falling in love online? Don’t get caught out by the Tinder scammers

Don't join the guys who were daft enough to hand over $5 each to a woman online - here are some tips to avoid falling into a trap

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January 25, 2017

Looking for love? Don’t get caught out by the growing number of scammers

Scammers are getting away an ever-increasing sums of money as they exploit human loneliness as a growth sector

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July 05, 2016

Ashley Madison to be probed by FTC

Life is short. Have an affair... with a fembot?

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June 01, 2016

Online dating scam drags woman into Argentinian prison for 2.5 years

She unwittingly tried to smuggle cocaine sewn into the lining of a suitcase at her "lover's" request.

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May 20, 2016

Published personal data on 70,000 OkCupid users taken down after DMCA order

They got the "highly identifiable" data with a scraper, without permission of users whose kinks, location and more were exposed.

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April 29, 2016

Tinder Social shows you which Facebook friends use Tinder

The way Tinder Social works today assumes that you want all of your Facebook friends who use Tinder to know that you're also using Tinder.

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April 27, 2016

Dating site that once faked being hacked is breached for real this time

BeautifulPeople.com, which once said it was hit by a virus as a marketing stunt, has had a real data breach affecting 1.1 million users.

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