Color Dating data breach: 220K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2025-03-03
In September 2018, the dating app to match people with different ethnicities Color Dating suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 220k unique email addresses along with bios, names, profile photos and bcrypt password hashes. Exposed data: bios, dates of birth, email addresses, geographic locations, names, passwords, profile photos. The breach dates from Sep 5, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 3, 2025.
What to do
- If you had a Color Dating account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
Sources
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