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Grindr LLC

Grindr LLC Data Breach (2012)

Grindr LLC

highVERIS
Disclosed

January 1, 2012

5199 days ago

Records

1.0M

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Technology

Description

The hacker reportedly spoofed several accounts in Sydney, sending messages and changing profile pics to explicit images without the real user's knowledge. The hacker had apparently cracked the token used to communicate between smartphones and learned that this same hash can be used to access Grindr's database.

Grindr LLC Data Breach (2012) - 1.0M Records | ExposedMap