Dating app reveals Val’s Day data breach may have affected 6m users looking for love

A Valentine’s Day data breach may have affected over 6 million Coffee Meets Bagel app users looking for love.

The company sent an email to users Thursday to address the issue.

In the email, the company said that it learned an unauthorized party acquired some user data on Feb 11.

It said the breach affected users’ names and email addresses prior to May 2018. It did not say how the breach occurred, but emphasized that no financial information or passwords were compromised.

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Coffee Meets Bagel did not disclose the number of users affected in its email, but said it was part of a larger breach affecting 620 million accounts across 16 companies, including Dubsmash, MyFitnessPal and HauteLook.

According to a report by The Register, the breach affected over 6 million Coffee Meets Bagel users, whose 673 MB of data could be purchased on the dark web for less than $20,000 in bitcoin.

Coffee Meets Bagel also said in the email that it has taken steps to protect user data, including reviews of its systems and infrastructure by forensic security experts, audits of vendors and external systems, continued monitoring of suspicious activity, coordinating with law enforcement authorities and enhancing its system to detect and prevent breaches in the future.

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