Millions of records from dating sites found on misconfigured cloud storage

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https://siliconangle.com/2020/07/06/millions-records-dating-sites-found-misconfigured-cloud-storage/

By Duncan Riley
SiliconAngle.com
July 6, 2020

Information relating to millions of users of data sites have been found 
exposed online in yet another case of misconfigured cloud storage.

Discovered late last week by security researchers at WizCase, the exposed 
records span up to 11 different dating services, with five identified: 
Catholic Singles, SPYKX, TESTIKI, the Blurry dating app and 
Charincharin/Kyuun-Kyuun.

Data found on the exposed databases included real names, billing 
addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, private messages and more. In 
the cases of SPYKX, a South Korean dating site and CharinCharin from Japan 
the databases also included clear text passwords. The amount of data 
exposed across the identified sites ranged from 3,700 records for SPYKX 
through to 102 million records for CharinCharin.

Six databases discovered by the researchers included similar data but were 
unable to be properly identified. The researchers note that the data could 
have been scraped from other sites, but some of the data does not appear 
to be from internet-facing pages. At least some of the data in these 
databases was linked to users on dating sites Zhenai, Say Love, Netease, 
Love Chat and Companion.

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