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“Privacy Train Wreck:” Group dating app 3fun exposed sensitive data on 1.5 million users

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports:

More than 1.5 million users of a group dating service had their personal data exposed — including their real-time location — because of a vulnerability in the app.

The app, 3fun, bills itself as a “private space” where you can meet “local kinky, open-minded people.” But the data wasn’t private at all. Ken Munro, founder of Pen Test Partners, which published the research Thursday and shared its findings with TechCrunch, said it was “probably the worst security for any dating app we’ve ever seen.”

Read more on TechCrunch.


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