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This sounds irresistible for angry misogynists. The only thing that surprises me about this is that it didn’t happen earlier.
I'm way out of the dating game at this point, and also a man, so it's very likely that I'm just out of the loop
But I hadn't heard anything about this app until a couple weeks ago when I saw an article or two about it
Then about a week later this happened
So I kind of feel like maybe most of the assholes who did this were similarly unaware of it until it got some exposure and then it was on their radar.
I would certainly imagine that most women using this app probably weren't telling the angry misogynists in their lives about this app.
Warning I'm going off memory and I'm too lazy to check this.
One of the articles on the first data leek mentioned it became big on the google play store shortly before the leek. It probably just wasn't around long enough for you to notice it.
The article linked above asserts that it was a "legacy portion" of the database that got leaked, and that all the leaked data is from February 2024 and earlier. So this vulnerability apparently existed for at least 18 months. The timing of the leak coincides with a spike in popularity which brought wider attention down on it, and finally someone without the desire to implicitly trust it gave it a look.
Which says to me that in the few years this app has existed, it was never scrutinized, not by anyone on the dev side and not by anyone on the user side. That's fascinating to me.
Ostensibly, a noble goal. Practice is a bit more fuzzy.
Also: nothing is ever new