Data Breach

Hacker leaks data of 2.28M users of dating site MeetMindful

A well-known threat actor has leaked data belonging to 2.28 million users registered on the dating website MeetMindful.

ZDNet first reported that the well-known threat actor ShinyHunters has leaked the data of more than 2.28 million users registered on the dating site MeetMindful,

The threat actor leaked the data for free download on a publicly accessible hacking forum.

“The leaked data, a 1.2 GB file, appears to be a dump of the site’s users database.” reported ZDNet.

Leaked data included real names, email addresses, city, state, and ZIP details, body details, dating preferences, marital status, birth dates, latitude and longitude, IP addresses, bcrypt-hashed account passwords, Facebook user IDs, and Facebook authentication tokens.

The availability of such data expose users of the dating site to several cybercriminals activities, including sextortion and scams.

ZDNet pointed out that the leaked dump doesn’t include the messages exchanged by the registered users.

MeetMindful has yet to confirm the alleged data breach.

Thousands of users of the hacker forum have viewed the thread where the MeetMindful data was shared, this means that it is already circulating in the hacking community.

Early this week, ShinyHunters leaked the details of millions of users registered on Teespring, and in November he leaked data of the Pluto TV service.

In July, ShinyHunters offered on a hacker forum a collection of databases stolen from eighteen companies, over 386 million user records available online.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, MeetMindful)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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