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Cupid Media hacked badly

Saw this story tonight.

http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/secu...121-hv3ok.html

Quote:

Up to 42 million lonely hearts have had their personal details stolen from an Australian online dating service.

A hacker targeted the niche dating service Cupid Media, which is run out of Southport on the Gold Coast, earlier this year, stealing client names, email addresses, unencrypted passwords and birthdays. The data was found on a server on which hackers had amassed tens of millions of records stolen from Adobe, PR Newswire and the US National White Collar Crime Centre (NW3C), among others.

Cupid Media says it operates over 30 niche dating websites based on ethnicity, lifestyle preferences, religion and location. It also operate a few other miscellaneous dating related services.

It is always strange to me how companies can pull in millions a year and not think....hmm... should we safe guard our millions and our customers by hiring an in house security guy for $140,000 a year and then contract out to a company for another $150,000 a year to keep our data on our server instead of pastebin?

the worse thing on this is that the 42 millions of users believe they can find a date ... :2 cents: :upsidedow

I wonder how much he gonna earns from 42 emails to send them some product!

wtf, are you kidding me ?
unencrypted passwords ? really ?

someone should sue them.

if i were them, i would encrypt the fucking emails ,names and all. what bunch of stupid guys running company that big.

wow imagine getting ahold of that list...spam city.

That's a lot of real emails!