Security News > 2021 > January > 2.28M MeetMindful Daters Compromised in Data Breach

The ShinyHunters hacking group offer a raft of information, from location and contact info to dating preferences and bodily descriptions, as a free download. More than 2.28 million members of the online dating site MeetMindful have reportedly been caught up in a wide-ranging data breach that exposes everything from Facebook tokens to physical characteristics.

The ShinyHunters hacking group has stolen and published the personally identifiable data of MeetMindful users, according to a report from ZDNet.

"Lookout recently discovered a sextortion campaign called Goontact that targeted users of illicit sites, typically offering escort services, to steal personal data from their mobile phone."

"This combination of data points included in the data is nothing less than toxic. The simplest of approaches is to set up some filters in the data, such as marital status and try some extortion on the results using email," he told Threatpost.

"A more sinister one is to use the different data points to lure people into phishing attempts at their work place. However, as Big Data is not unknown to hackers it will require just a little more research about the Facebook accounts and email addresses."

They offered the data for free, in what researchers said was a likely sabotage of another data broker's deal.

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