From setting up IRL dates to choosing a privacy-friendly selfie, we've got you covered
Recently, information from five different dating sites have leaked millions of their users’ private data. The sites cover users from the USA, Korea and Japan. On top of this, a variety of other niche dating apps (such as CougarD and 3Somes) had data breaches of their own that exposed hundreds of thousands of users’ profiles in May, including photos and audio recordings. This latter event occurred thanks to a misconfigured and open Amazon S3 storage bucket. Thankfully, the owner of the account quickly moved to secure it properly when they heard from security researchers. We haven’t heard much about dating site breaches since private data from some 30M Ashley Madison users were posted online in 2015. These data breaches have put online dating sites back in the spotlight, but these sites have other security issues, such as the big business that attracts scammers. The FBI reports that romance fraud was the seventh most popular scam in terms of total money lost by victims. The FTC reported that last year more than $200M was reported in financial losses in 2018 across these scams. In this guide (which has a very comprehensive step by step suggestions on how to set up your profile), it lists how to spot and avoid ..
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