Senior Dating data breach: 765K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2024-12-09
In 2024, the 40+ dating website Senior Dating suffered a data breach. Attributed to an exposed Firebase database, the breach included extensive personal information on 766k users of the service including email addresses, photos, genders, links to Facebook accounts, dates of birth and precise latitude and longitude, among other personal attributes. The website was shut down after the breach was acknowledged by the site operator in December, along with a breach of the "ladies.com" website run by the same organisation. Exposed data: bios, dates of birth, drinking habits, education levels, email addresses, genders, geographic locations, latitude and longitude pairs, occupations, profile photos, relationship statuses, smoking habits, social media profiles. The breach dates from Nov 23, 2024; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Dec 9, 2024.
What to do
- If you had a Senior 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.
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