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S ecurity flaws on a free online dating platform could have resulted in dating disasters. If the flaws had been exploited, the vulnerabilities would have allowed hackers to access and steal the private data of OkCupid users, and then send messages from their account with impunity. OkCupid has over 50 million registered users and it is used in countries. However, the detailed personal information submitted by users also makes online dating services a lucrative target for threat actors, either for targeted attacks, or for selling stolen information to other hackers.

Researchers detailed a three-step attack method which would have enabled a hacker to target users:. Users do not need to take any action.

Social media has made dating more of a minefield than ever. Consider yourself lucky you haven’t crossed online paths with these terrible men. By Anna Davies.

Hey sexy, what’s up? I got your Instagram off Tinder. Alexandra Tweten reads through a lot of conversations like this. The American writer generally receives screenshots of 20 such exchanges each day, sent to be considered for inclusion on ByeFelipe , her Instagram account which documents the terrible experiences women can have when dating online.

Tweten, 31, started the account in , after realising the types of messages she had received from men on dating apps were surprisingly common. And 12 hours later he just sent her this message which read, ‘A’. ByeFelipe now has over , followers eager for the equal parts horrific and hilarious stories Tweten posts, which she vets on the basis that they must be either “funny” or “make feel something”.

Popular tumblr account “When Women Refuse”, for example, documents stories of violence against women which stemmed from romantic rejection. It is all a part of what has been called “date shaming”: publicly posting the details of a bad dating experience on social media. Closer to home, year-old Alita Brydon’s Facebook page, Bad Dates of Melbourne , has 63, followers who have signed up for her thrice daily posts of anonymous romantic woe, although she doesn’t like the term “shaming”.