Zack Whittaker of TechCrunch try revealing one some profiles of the OKCupid application are reporting you to definitely hackers has broken to their accounts, and altered passwords and you will related email addresses – effectively securing users from their on the internet users.

My account was just hacked on 20 minutes or so ago and you can passed/email changed, wanting a contact current email address however, been incapable of. One let?

Worryingly, the new unnamed affiliate who called TechCrunch stated that that they had not received one correspondence out-of OKCupid inquiring them to prove they desired to switch the e-mail target in the their membership. In addition, “the fresh hacker already been harassing him strange sms regarding his phone matter that has been lifted from one away from their private messages.”

A representative for OKCupid advised TechCrunch that providers hadn’t suffered a protection infraction, and you can rather directed the new finger of uncertainty at membership being affected by hackers speculating weakened, easy-to-guess passwords, or – probably – the average event away from pages unwisely reusing passwords across several qualities. Leia mais