Bad news for match seekers
Valentine’s Day began with awful news for users
of the dating
app called Coffee Mets Bagel,
according to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the
International Institute of Cyber Security the online dating service has begun
to inform its users of having suffered a data breach.
Via email, the company began to notify its
users: “We recently discovered that some data from your Coffee Meets Bagel
account may have been compromised by a third party without authorization,” says
the message that the affected users received. Coffee meets Bagel claims that
the incident was discovered on Monday, February 11th.
The company chose not to mention the name of
the third party that unduly acceded to the users’ information. In its official
statement, Coffee Meets Bagel mentions that it is already collaborating with a network
security services company, as well as the authorities have already been
notified.
Coffee Meets Bagel allows users to register for
the service using their Facebook access credentials, so there is concern about
a possible outbreak of credential stuffing attacks. However, the company
ensures that only the user names and their respective email addresses were
compromised.
When questioned about the current state of the
situation, Coffee Meets Bagel teams said they will keep the stakeholders
informed of any new information regarding this data breach.
The reputation of this type of services has
collapsed due to the frequent data breaches or security incidents in which they
are involved; in recent days it was the turn of the Jack’d dating app, which
exposed millions of private photos of its UK users online due to an unsecured
database, mentioned network security specialists.
