Security News > 2023 > September > Coffee Meets Bagel says recent outage caused by destructive cyberattack
The Coffee Meets Bagel dating platform confirms last week's outage was caused by hackers breaching the company's systems and deleting company data.
Last week, Coffee Meets Bagel suffered a worldwide outage, with users upset that they could not coordinate planned dates or continue communicating with their matches.
"We determined that the outage was the result of an outside actor who maliciously deleted company data and files," reads an outage FAQ from Coffee Meets Bagel.
At this time, Coffee Meets Bagel has not confirmed if the attack was ransomware that encrypted data, effectively making it unusable, or if the threat actors purposely deleted data to bring down the service.
Coffee Meets Bagel warns that all users must log back into the system as they automatically logged all users out of the system at the time of the attack.
This is not the first time Coffee Meets Bagel has suffered a cyberattack.