Security News > 2023 > September > Coffee Meets Bagel outage caused by cybercriminals deleting data and files

If you got snubbed by the object of your affections on dating app Coffee Meets Bagel in late August, don't feel bad, the company says its systems were down due to cyber baddies.

Access to the service was finally restored on September 3 after the "Team spent days working around the clock to rebuild our system from online backups so that daters could securely get back online."

Of course, there are plenty of alternative dating sites and this author - who is married - is reliably informed by other fellow Reg vultures that determined daters use more than one channel to find their perfect partner online.

"We're incredibly sorry for the disruption, and we hope to make it up to new and existing CMB Daters alike."

"Nope! No CMB Daters were able to access the site during the outage, so everyone is on the same page."

The company, started by three sisters to give women a different online dating app experience, has taken in $23 million in funding from five investment rounds.

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