Uh oh, turns out your favorite dating app is scary easy to hack

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Think all those personal details you share on your dating app profile are private? Think again.

Researchers at the Kaspersky Lab in Moscow found that many of the most popular dating apps are easily hacked. Not only could they get basic information like users’ names and locations, but in some instances they could also see people’s messages and which other users they’ve looked at. Yikes.

The investigation, which was led by Roman Unuchek, Mikhail Kuzin, and Sergey Zelensky, looked at a big chunk of common apps including Tinder, Bumble, OKCupid, WeChat, Badoo, and Zoosk. A few different levels of testing were done on both iOS and Android versions of these apps. Read more...

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Uh oh, turns out your favorite dating app is scary easy to hack Uh oh, turns out your favorite dating app is scary easy to hack Reviewed by mimisabreena on Wednesday, October 25, 2017 Rating: 5

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