Security News > 2020 > January > What do online file sharers want with 70,000 Tinder images?
2020-01-21 10:50
A researcher has discovered thousands of Tinder users' images publicly available for free online.
In 2017, Google subsidiary Kaggle scraped 40,000 images from Tinder using the company's API. The researcher involved uploaded his script to GitHub, although it was subsequently hit by a DMCA takedown notice.
Hackers could create fake online accounts using the images and lure unsuspecting victims into scams.
The online Tinder dump contains multiple candid shots for each user, and it's a non-indexed platform meaning that those images are unlikely to turn up in a reverse image search.
It is a violation of our terms to copy or use any members' images or profile data outside of Tinder.