Online Dating App Heyyo Suffers Data Breach, Impacting 72,000 Users

Online dating app Heyyo left a server exposed on the internet without a password, disclosing the personal details, images, location data, phone numbers and dating preferences for nearly 72,000 users, believed to be the app's entire userbase.

According to a news report, security researchers at WizCase found the database, which contained personally identifiable information, such as:

Names
Phone numbers
Email addresses
Dates of birth
Gender
Height
Profile pictures and other images
Facebook IDs for users who linked their profiles
Instagram IDs for users who linked their profiles
Longitude and latitude
Who liked a user's profile
Liked profiles
Disliked profiles
Superliked profiles
Blocked profiles
Dating preferences
Registration and last active date
Smartphone details

The news report says the data's authenticity was verified by contacting some of the users whose phone numbers were included in the database, and then proceeded to notify Heyyo of the data breach. The database was taken down only after a week Heyyo was made aware of the incident, says the news report.

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