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Plenty of Fish (PoF)

1 Dec 2019 · National · Telecommunications
Data Breach MEDIUM ✓ Verified

What happened

Popular digital matching platform Plenty of Fish rushed out emergency system patches after a mobile app optimization error inadvertently modified privacy logic, making hidden user location data visible on public matching dashboards.

Incident details

Organisation
Plenty of Fish (PoF)
Date
1 Dec 2019
Attack type
Data Breach
Severity
MEDIUM
Sector
Telecommunications
State
National
Records affected
Unknown
Threat actor
Technical Issue

Source

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