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According to AtlasVPN researchers, US military personnel lost over $822 million in different kinds of cybercrime and scams between 2017 and 30 June 2021. The researchers examined data compiled by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). They discovered that the most amount ($484.4 million) was lost by military families and reservists, followed by veterans and […]
Hackread.com can confirm that threat actors on several hacker forums are already hunting for stolen Omiai database. In recent news, Japan’s biggest dating app, Omiai, was hacked and personal data of users such as drivers’ licenses, insurance cards, and passports were accessed by threat actors. The app’s operator, Net Marketing Co, has confirmed that unauthorized […]
Back in the days, finding a date was as easy as walking into a pub and ordering a drink for the person you like. However, in just over a decade, things have dramatically changed. Today, we have smartphones! And thanks to smartphones, we are introduced to a whole new world of meeting & networking. Although […]
Dating can be hard, especially when you’re doing it online. Swiping right can always give you that little niggle in the back of your head, “are they who they say they are?” We’ve all heard the horror stories, but then again there are plenty of tales of success and the number of Tinder marriages is […]
Facebook announced last year that a dating feature will be added to its app to help people in initiating “long-term relationships — not just for hookups.” Since then we haven’t seen many updates in the feature until now. At this year’s F8 event, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook Dating is coming to 14 more countries in […]
The Internet is an addictive world due to its unlimited and lucrative opportunities for people from almost every facet of life. Some use the Internet to make money, some use it to keep in touch with their loved ones, and some to find love – and then there are those who use it for nefarious […]
Tinder is an online dating app that was launched in 2012 and allows members to swipe through profiles to make social connections. However, according to security experts from, Checkmarx, a Tel Aviv based security company, Tinder has two critical security flaws that expose every swipe and match of yours to strangers including cybercriminals who are […]
Adult Friend Finder has been hacked again — This time, 412 million accounts have been stolen and exposed. This can easily be termed as the biggest and largest data breach and hacking feat of 2016. In the latest data breach, all adult websites owned by Friend Finder Inc. have been hacked leading to exposure of […]
Shadi.com is the latest victim of the hacking spree against Muslim dating and matrimonial websites! User accounts of Muslim dating websites MuslimMatch.com and Shadi.com are being traded in the digital underground, including email address, cracked passwords, names, and dates of birth. The Leaked Source managed to obtain data of two dating websites MuslimMatch.com and Shadi.com on […]
Approximately 1.1 Million people suffer data hacks from the dating website BeautifulPeople. The big news was broken on Twitter where Troy Hunt who is the operator of the HaveIBeenPwned.com made a public announcement stating that due to the insecure MangoDB test server left unguardedly open, without an admin password, millions of clients’ data was leaked […]
Once an almost unheard-of phenomenon, online dating is today a go-to resource for many busy, career-oriented individuals for finding their true love and future partners. While many succeed in finding their loved ones using this relatively new medium, many become victims to what is known as ‘romance’ or ‘sweetheart’ scams. According to the Federal Bureau […]
Websites and apps around the world encourage researchers to find bugs in their system, but an Internet dating app for HIV positive people threatens the security researchers with HIV infection if they notify the company about any security bug in their app. Hzone, an application for HIV-positive singles that has over 4900 users were told […]
A former police captain of the City of San Antonio police department committed suicide after his official email address was found amid the leaked data of the cheating website Ashley Madison, San Antonio Express-News reported on Friday. He was one of the three officials of the police department whose official email addresses (ending at @sanantonio.gov) […]
Impact Team, the group of hackers who earlier stole a huge amount of personal data of about 37 million customers from the renowned cheating website Ashley Madison, now appear to release all the information on the Internet. They have published near to 10 gigabytes of data, which includes all the personal details of the website […]
An Adult Dating website AdultFriendFinder is the newest victim of a huge hack that exposed the personal information, with sexual orientation details, of around 4 million users. A UK-based Channel 4 News revealed that hackers compromised sensitive data like email and IP addresses, birth dates, and usernames. However, more nerve wrecking is the expose of sexual […]
For all those folks who log into dating sites in order to ‘get a sexy lady’ and blindly trust whoever the found online. Here is a news for you all. Toronto-based Doriana Silva is suing an online dating site Ashley Madison (www.ashleymadison.com) for some serious injuries she sustained during her job. Silva claims that while working at the […]