Dating website for annoyingly attractive people, BeautifulPeople.com, has allegedly leaked 1.1 million users’ personal information. And yeah, that includes plenty of Aussies.
According to Forbes, the personal information includes home addresses, sexual preferences, relationship statuses, jobs, incomes, education, hobbies, favourite movies and TV shows, appearance details, location data, email addresses, mobile phone numbers, and private messages between users.
The website – which allows existing ‘beautiful people’ to accept or reject hopeful members dictated only by their appearance – is no stranger to controversy for obvious reasons, but this new leak information is far beyond issues of shallowness.
The information, which has been explained on Twitter and to Forbes by Aussie security expert Troy Hunt, is now apparently being sold for differing prices by hackers.
“We’re looking at in excess of 100 individual data attributes per person. Everything you’d expect from a site of this nature is in there.”
Hunt, who owns the breach alert website HaveIBeenPwned.com, also tweeted that there is 170 government emails in the site:
There are also 170 .gov email addresses in the Beautiful People breach. I keep seeing a heap of gov stuff where it probably shouldn’t be…
— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) April 25, 2016
Even more interesting is the date range of the leak: it apparently happened last year, but was never made public – not even to users.
Loading a new breach into @haveibeenpwned with lots of millions of accounts. Apparently they’ve known for months, just didn’t tell anyone…
— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) April 25, 2016
BeautifulPeople.com told Forbes that the compromised data came from a test server which was quickly locked up, and it was not made out to be a serious incident.
Regardless of being affected by this or not, look at this .gif and realise that you now have the drums from Marilyn Manson‘s ‘Beautiful People’ in your head.
Photo: BeautifulPeople.com.
