Hacker Claims to Sell 35 Million OkCupid User Records
Summary
A hacker claims to be selling a scrape of up to 35 million OkCupid user records, allegedly including sensitive personal and dating information. The dataset’s authenticity and reported scale are unconfirmed.
Key points
- A hacker claims to be selling up to 35 million records scraped from OkCupid.
- The alleged data includes sexual orientation, precise location, birth dates, and dating preferences.
- Email addresses, phone numbers, and hashed passwords may also be included.
- The article warns the data could enable harassment, sextortion, doxxing, stalking, or identity theft.
- The scrape’s authenticity and reported scale remain unconfirmed.
Article Details
- Victim Organization
- OkCupid
- Incident Type
- Alleged data scrape and sale of user records; authenticity and scale are unconfirmed.
- Data Types Exposed
- Sexual orientation
- Precise location
- Dates of birth
- Dating preferences
- Email addresses
- Phone numbers
- Hashed passwords
- Affected Records
- A hacker claims to be selling 35 million user records; the scale is unconfirmed.
- Operational Impact
- No operational disruption is reported. If authentic, the data could enable harassment, sextortion, doxxing, stalking, and identity theft.
- Ransom Or Extortion
- No ransom or completed extortion is reported; sextortion is described as a potential misuse of the alleged data.
- Claim Status
- claimed