"Breaking the online dating sound barrier": hackers

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Friday, February 19, 2021

SDK Bug Lets Attackers Spy on User’s Video Calls Across Dating

https://threatpost.com/sdk-bug-spy-calls-dating-healthcare-apps/164068/
A vulnerability in an SDK that allows users to make video calls in apps like eHarmony, PlentyOfFish, MeetMe and Skout allows threat actors to spy on private calls without the user knowing.

Security article: Can Online Dating Apps be Used to Target Your Company?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2017/08/security-article-can-online-dating-apps.html

A hacker group is selling more than 73 million user records
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-hacker-group-is-selling-more-than-73.html

Friday, January 31, 2020

Inside the future of online dating: AI swiping and concierge bots ???

https://mashable.com/article/tinder-hack-bot-ai-dating/

Hackers are using AI & facial recognition on Tinder — Mashable Originals
https://mashable.com/video/tinder-hackers/

Finally the perfect dating algorithm? Of course NOT, Big Five test is OBSOLETE.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/02/finally-perfect-dating-algorithm-of.html
Tinder bots: Scammers target users of online dating apps using malicious AI 'bots'
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/11/tinder-bots-scammers-target-users-of.html

Sellers offer a way to beat facial recognition in China
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/11/sellers-offer-way-to-beat-facial.html

FUNNY: IDEA's Project 0d8 Helps Dating Services Improve
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/07/funny-ideas-project-0d8-helps-dating.html
Improvement is not innovation!

The Online Dating Industry needs INNOVATIONS, not more bells and whistles.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/01/mistakes-at-behavioral-economics-of.html

Breaking "the online dating sound barrier" is to achieve at least:
3 most compatible persons in a 100,000 persons database.
12 most compatible persons in a 1,000,000 persons database.
48 most compatible persons in a 10,000,000 persons database.
100 times better than Compatibility Matching Algorithms used by actual online dating sites!

The 3 milestone discoveries of the 2001 - 2010 decade for Theories of Romantic Relationships Development are:

I) Several studies showing contraceptive pills users make different mate choices, on average, compared to non-users.
"Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle"

II) People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life. (Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences are useless)

III) What is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy. The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".

PAPER "Only the congruent survive - Personality similarities in couples. Personality and Individual Differences"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/04/paper-partnership-longevity-and.html
PAPER "Partnership longevity and personality congruence in couples"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/04/only-congruent-survive-personality.html
Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the Big Five normative model or the HEXACO normative model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the normative 16PF6 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.

Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Hackers steal more than 70,000 photos of Tinder

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7903031/Hackers-steal-70-000-photos-Tinder-users.html
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10768285/tinder-pics-stolen-cyber-crime-fake-profiles-catfishing/

PlentyOfFish has reported that it suffered a data breach recently
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/12/plentyoffish-has-reported-that-it.html

REPORT: How consumers are exploited by the online advertising industry
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2020/01/report-how-consumers-are-exploited-by.html

FORBES article: Swipe Right For Verified Dating Profiles
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2020/01/forbes-article-swipe-right-for-verified.html

Your Identity Could Be Used in Online Dating Scams.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/12/your-identity-could-be-used-in-online.html

Sunday, April 28, 2019

Perhaps she is a white hat hacker, not a reverse-engineering engineer.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47630849

By reverse-engineering popular apps ?
Imagine when you discover fake profiles ... created from inside, from Marketing Units
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/imagine-when-you-discover-fake-profiles.html

Old data about eHarmony Japan big failure. Remember?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2016/05/old-data-about-eharmony-japan-big.html
Facebook Dating will allow daters to connect with Instagram account
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/facebook-dating-will-allow-daters-to.html

Friday, September 28, 2018

Facebook hack affecting 50 million people also let the attackers access users' Tinder ...

Sunday, March 25, 2018

No IPO for Badoo and no IPO for Bumble?

Some days ago, GDI published an article about
"Bumble Considering an Initial Public Offering, Says Wolfe Herd"

https://globaldatinginsights.com/2018/03/20/bumble-considering-an-initial-public-offering-says-wolfe-herd/

But please see this info from
https://gigaom.com/2010/11/12/419-another-russian-ipo-social-net-badoo-rumoured-for-float/
and
http://uk.businessinsider.com/full-transcript-badoo-ceo-andrey-andreev-on-his-apps-redesign-partnerships-and-bumble-2017-4

BI: In 2012 you said you were unsure about an IPO. Has that changed?
AA: Badoo for me, is like a favourite child. Quite an old baby, though. Badoo is not just a standalone product. It's a massive machine, a factory of features with lots of extremely talented and dedicated people working on it.

An IPO for every company means the beginning of an end, when the structure becomes more co-operative and innovative projects are hard to pass through line managers.

Believe it or not, but after 11 years of Badoo it still feels like a startup. We are open to ideas from every single member of our team. We test, make mistakes and create new exciting products for Badoo. What's not to love? I think I'll stick to it for a little while.

Badoo NOT ON SALE, Founder talks at GQ magazine

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/02/badoo-not-on-sale-founder-talks-at-gq.html

Badoo founder does not consider Tinder a competitor

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/02/badoo-founder-does-not-consider-tinder.html

BI article: The reclusive CEO of dating app Badoo on his app's redesign

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/04/bi-article-reclusive-ceo-of-dating-app.html
Bumble clapped back at Match Group / Tinder's lawsuit with a full-page ad published in the New York Time
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/03/bumble-clapped-back-at-match-group.html
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tinder-and-bumble-will-never-be-a-match-and-match-may-be-better-off-for-it-2018-03-20#_=_

It is said Badoo is run by Russian Mafia in the spyware business.
Now they are in big war with Tinder (Match Group)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/03/tinders-parent-company-match-group-is.html

Match CEO Downplays Intimidation Accusations in Bumble Brawl (via Bloomberg)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/03/match-ceo-downplays-intimidation.html

Saturday, July 8, 2017

eHarmony and Match in list of companies most-spoofed in spam H1 2017

Imitating legitimate companies is a common technique of spammers.
Here are the most commonly spoofed brands.
https://business.f-secure.com/top-companies-spoofed-in-spam

USA FBI IC3 Releases Annual Report Highlighting Trends in Internet Crime
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/06/usa-fbi-ic3-releases-annual-report.html
Instagram accounts hacked, altered to promote adult dating spam
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/instagram-accounts-hacked-altered-to.html

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

UK Online dating fraud victim numbers at record high (via BBC)

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

AshleyMadison settles with USA FTC over online dating hack.

USA FTC can do nothing, but Journalists or hackers can incinerate any bad online dating site from inside!
AshleyMadison is GAME OVER, but they insist with reboot!
AshleyMadison should close forever.
It seems no one trust AshleyMadison any more because it seems they STILL use fembots.
Cheaters will use Tinder instead.

The Impact Team was really victorious.

Soon you will see online dating scam victims hiring hackers and private investigators to fight back bad online dating sites, destroying them from inside, ala AshleyMadison case!

Thursday, December 1, 2016

AUSTRALIA: Online dating scam victims hire hackers, private investigators to fight back.

Cyber crime victims are hiring professional hackers and private investigators to get to the bottom of online scams that authorities refuse to touch.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-01/victims-of-online-dating-scams-fighting-back/8078950

eHarmony reinforces security
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/11/eharmony-reinforces-security.html

article: Why hackers are shifting focus to dating websites
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/11/article-why-hackers-are-shifting-focus.html

Scammers from Nigeria by Alexa catfishing at EliteSingles CA and USA?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/11/scammers-from-nigeria-by-alexa.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/11/funny-article-brexit-wont-harm.html

We are waiting for MTCH (Match Group) big hacking incident revealing they create fake profiles from inside.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/alert-hacktivist-collective-impact-team.html

Recently Match Group launched OurTimeBrasil new site for Brazil, and the site is new but its initial database if full of profiles.
Perhaps Match Group merged databases from Match Brazil, ParPerfeito, or who knows? but ... it seems it is happening what was described by former Match angry customer:
"Now before I paid for a subscription, I spent about a week seeing what kind of women were using Match dot com. During this time, I was getting a ton of email from women who apparently liked or favourited me. However, after subscribing, the number of such emails I received dropped to zero. I found the reason for this, and it’s because in the daily match results, only 1 out of 12 users is a subscriber (I watched this happen for the last 10 days). Seems the daily match results are setup to maximize sending new users lots of emails. But once you're a member, you need to pay extra to get into these daily match results."
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/11/where-is-press-release-to-announce.html

Please read about the article "Match Subscribers Unsuccessful In Breaking Up With Dating App"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/about-article-match-subscribers.html

Please remember: In the case of Yuliana Avalos and Melissa Midwest former 2014 big lawsuit againts Match Group, third-party scammers in Africa or wherever were creating fake profiles and catfishing with them.
IAC and Match Group were essentially aware of that situation and did nothing to stop it.
The USA Court ruled that IAC and Match Group were not responsible.
Attorney Evan Spencer, said that despite the fact that anti-scammer technology is available, Match Group failed to use such things as face-recognition software – which would have discovered that Yuliana Avalos's pictures were being used hundreds of times.
Yuliana Avalos has argued in a former 2014 big lawsuit against Match that photos of her were posted without her permission on the site as part of a scam that drove a man to commit suicide.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/plentyoffish-warning-after-womans-weird.html

Nobody cares about online dating hacking incidents & Management Team, of course not interested at all in security.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/11/nobody-cares-about-aff-hacking-incident.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/11/aff-data-breach-old-new-or-both-anyway.html

Thursday, November 24, 2016

article: Why hackers are shifting focus to dating websites

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/in-other-news/241116/heres-why-hackers-are-shifting-focus-to-dating-websites.html

Nobody cares about online dating hacking incidents & Management Team, of course not interested at all in security.
We are waiting for MTCH (Match Group) big hacking incident revealing they create fake profiles from inside.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/11/nobody-cares-about-aff-hacking-incident.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/11/aff-data-breach-old-new-or-both-anyway.html

Friday, November 18, 2016

AFF data breach, old? new? or both? Anyway nobody cares.

NEW
Nobody cares about AFF hacking incident, Management not interested at all.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/11/nobody-cares-about-aff-hacking-incident.html

http://www.inquisitr.com/3721842/adult-friend-finder-website-hacked-how-to-search-the-leaked-database-of-emails-and-usernames-for-the-adult-dating-site/
http://thevarguy.com/network-security-and-data-protection-software-solutions/security-central-friendfinder-networks-gets-
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/11/14/adult-friendfinder-hit-with-one-of-the-biggest-data-breaches-ever-report-says/
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/john-mcafee-personal-privacy-everybody-has-something-hide-question-whom-1591928

OLD
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/06/info-from-aff-data-breach-by-mcafee.html

Thursday, October 27, 2016

PlentyOfFish hacked again?

If hackers have the entire database???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/employee-data-leaks-from-most-of-worlds.html

ALERT Hacktivist collective The Impact Team could be targeting Twitter, Facebook and other giant sites
Like Match Group?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/alert-hacktivist-collective-impact-team.html

ALERT Russian-speaking hackers breach 97 websites, many of them online dating ones.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/08/alert-russian-speaking-hackers-breach.html

"These sophisticated scammers were able to hijack the PlentyOfFish"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/these-sophisticated-scammers-were-able.html
Dark Web Hacker Steals 27 Million Email Addresses & Passwords From Mate1
http://globaldatinginsights.com/2016/03/01/dark-web-hacker-steals-27m-email-addresses-passwords-from-mate1-com/

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

A dating site leaked over a million accounts because of bad security

http://www.zdnet.com/article/dating-site-leaked-one-million-accounts-because-of-shoddy-security/

Security analyst says Yahoo!, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Tumblr: all popped by same gang
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/security-analyst-says-yahoo-dropbox.html

ALERT Hacktivist collective The Impact Team could be targeting Twitter, Facebook and other giant sites
Like Match Group?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/alert-hacktivist-collective-impact-team.html
"Espionage is for economic interests, not terrorism"
article: What Exactly Are the USA NSA Hackers Trying to Accomplish?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/article-what-exactly-are-usa-nsa.html
ALERT Russian-speaking hackers breach 97 websites, many of them online dating ones.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/08/alert-russian-speaking-hackers-breach.html

Friday, September 30, 2016

Security analyst says Yahoo!, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Tumblr: all popped by same gang

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/30/fiveperson_hacking_gang_claimed_behind_breaches_of_3bn_logins/

Please see:
Security: You call it 'hacking.' I call it 'investigation'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/16/you_call_it_hacking_i_call_it_investigation/

Employee data leaks from most of world’s biggest firms—and UK tops list (via ArstechnicaUK)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/employee-data-leaks-from-most-of-worlds.html

ALERT Hacktivist collective The Impact Team could be targeting Twitter, Facebook and other giant sites
Like Match Group?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/alert-hacktivist-collective-impact-team.html
"Espionage is for economic interests, not terrorism"
article: What Exactly Are the USA NSA Hackers Trying to Accomplish?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/article-what-exactly-are-usa-nsa.html
ALERT Russian-speaking hackers breach 97 websites, many of them online dating ones.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/08/alert-russian-speaking-hackers-breach.html

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Employee data leaks from most of world’s biggest firms—and UK tops list (via ArstechnicaUK)

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

article: Talk Talk, AshleyMadison and now Apple show no company is immune from cyber attack

Tackling hacking is a USD75 Billion-a-year industry that companies cannot ignore for fear of consumer backlash

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/sep/13/cyber-crime-hacking-talk-talk-ashley-madison-apple
A study by cyber security firm FireEye found more than half (54%) of US consumers felt more negatively towards companies that had suffered data breaches.
https://www.fireeye.com/company/press-releases/2016/new-fireeye-research-reveals-the-impact-of-high-profile-security.html
Other key findings included the following:
    52 percent of consumers would consider paying more for the same products or services from a provider with better data security
    78 percent of consumers are cautious of organizations’ abilities to keep data safe
    52 percent of consumers said security is an important or main consideration when buying products and services
    90 percent of consumers expect to be informed within 24 hours if their service provider had suffered a data breach which could have compromised their data

ALERT Hacktivist collective The Impact Team could be targeting Twitter, Facebook and other giant sites
Like Match Group?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/alert-hacktivist-collective-impact-team.html
"Espionage is for economic interests, not terrorism"
article: What Exactly Are the USA NSA Hackers Trying to Accomplish?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/article-what-exactly-are-usa-nsa.html

Thursday, September 1, 2016

article: Cyber Attacks review – where’s the big AshleyMadison reveal?

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sex-lies-and-cyber-attacks
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/sep/01/sex-lies-cyber-attacks-where-is-ashley-madison-reveal

WSJ article: Dating-Website Users Fall Prey to Fake Profiles
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/wsj-article-dating-website-users-fall.html

USA FTC: No more automatic rebilling in USA for Online Dating sites? Sooner than expected?
Thanks to AshleyMadison scandal (AshleyMadison threatened to expose customers who disputed bills and not its hacking incident) all the Online Dating Industry will suffer an earthquake.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/ashleymadison-used-chatbots-to-lure.html

AshleyMadison should close forever.

Ashley Madison admits using fembots to lure men into spending money http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/new-article-ashleymadison-threatened-to.html
It seems no one trust AshleyMadison any more because it seems they STILL use fembots.
Cheaters will use Tinder instead.

AshleyMadison security protocols violated privacy laws, watchdog says
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/ashleymadison-security-protocols.html

ALERT Hacktivist collective The Impact Team could be targeting Twitter, Facebook and other giant sites
Like Match Group?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/alert-hacktivist-collective-impact-team.html

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Instagram accounts hacked, altered to promote adult dating spam

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/instagram-accounts-hacked-altered-promote-adult-dating-spam
Influx of fake Instagram profiles luring users to adult dating sites
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/influx-fake-instagram-profiles-luring-users-adult-dating-sites
Hacked Twitter accounts are posting links to adult dating and personals
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/hacked-twitter-accounts-are-posting-links-adult-dating-and-sex-personals

Tinder statement about spam bots invasion
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/tinder-statement-about-spam-bots.html

Badoo Survey Examines Dating Behaviors Across the World
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/badoo-survey-examines-dating-behaviors.html
AshleyMadison Hacking Scandal 1 Year Later
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/ashleymadison-hacking-scandal-1-year.html