HACKED! MeetMindful

By Kevin Lancaster, IDAgent

Exploit:  Hacking

MeetMindful: Dating Site

Risk to Business: 1.979 = Severe

Details of an estimated 2.28 million users of dating site MeetMindful was just released online in the latest in a series of stolen data dumps by cybercrime gang ShinyHunters. There’s no clear origin of the data, but researchers expect that it may have come from an unsecured AWS S3 bucket.

Individual Risk: 1.779 = Severe

The dumped data includes users’ real names, email addresses, address information, physical descriptions, dating preferences, marital status, birth data, location data, IP addresses, Bcrypt-hashed passwords, Facebook user IDs and Facebook authentication tokens. This information puts users at risk for spear phishing attacks.

Customers Impacted: 2.28 million

How This Could Affect Your Business: Keeping data safe from hackers starts with keeping data secure using strong access point controls and basic security protocols like multifactor authentication.

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