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2018 — Grindr: Poor security / misconfiguration, 300,000 records

2018 300.0K records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Personal and demographic data

Technical writeup

A third-party tool that allows users to see who had blocked them was able to access non-public personal info, including locations of users who had opted out of location sharing.

Root cause

Poor security / misconfiguration

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