Dating Apps: The trend of online dating has increased very fast. But what will happen when your private pictures and messages are leaked in it. Yes, a report has made similar intimidating revelations where some dating apps have leaked private photos and messages of users. If you also use dating apps, then this news is for you.
Data leaks opened private secrets
According to the information, usually there is talk of things like password or credit card in the news of data leaks, but this time the matter is more serious. This time dating apps have leaked personal photos and messages of users. These data have now reached the unknown people. These data have been stolen from iPhone users who are usually more confident in the safety of their data.
Cybernews’s research revealed
According to Cybernews researcher Paulina Okunitete, the Mad Mobile Apps Developers Limited’s five iOS dating apps were publicly available in the code of the five iOS dating apps (eg password, API Keys and encryption keys) publicly available. With the help of these ‘secrets’, no one could reach private photos of users stored in Google Cloud Storage.
So many pictures were leaked
According to the report, in total about 1.5 million photos have been leaked, including photos sent by users in chat, deleted photos, profile photos and images uploaded for verification.
Photos leaked from these apps
- BDSM People
- Brish
- Chica
- Pink
- Translate
The number of data leaked from the BDSM People app is around 16 lakhs. This includes pictures sent or uploaded in 5.41 lakh chats, pictures removed by 18,000 modrators, 2.7 lakh profile photos, 90,000 chat photos, 65,000 blurred images and 28,000 verification photos.
At the same time, talking about the Chica app, 2200 chat photos, 11000 posted photos, 4,700 removed photos, 94,000 profile photos and 23000 verification images are included from this app. Researchers said that sensitive data has also been leaked from three apps of the LGBTQ+ community, which has caused a huge threat to privacy.
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