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LoginData stolen from a dating website aimed at "beautiful people only" has been traded online. The details of more than a million members including their weight, height, job, and phone numbers were discovered unencrypted online in December They have now been sold on the black market, said security expert Troy Hunt. The firm said the data belonged to members who joined before July and that no passwords or financial information were included. Security researcher Chris Vickery, who originally discovered it, told the BBC the firm acted quickly after he notified them - but by then, data had already been sold on. Beautiful People originally claimed the content was from a test server but Mr Vickery said the data itself was still genuine. It also transpired that a second researcher had identified the same weakness on the same day. No more recent user data or any data relating to users who joined from mid-July onward is affected," Beautiful People said in a statement. People wishing to join the website are first rated by existing members.
The site was launched in the United States and the United Kingdom in and went global in About 20 percent of applications to the site make it into the community. In , BeautifulPeople launched an exclusively gay version of BeautifulPeople. BeautifulPeople launched a satirical campaign in support of same-sex marriage in the United States in June In January , BeautifulPeople removed 5, members from the site for gaining weight. In June , BeautifulPeople.
Anyone who is found to be failing to maintain their looks is put back through the rating system, where members of the opposite sex only can select options including "yes, definitely", "hmm yes, ok", "no, not really" and "no, definitely not" based on photographs and a brief profile. Most of the users removed from the site were from the US but more than from the UK also got the chop. The website boasts more than , users from countries and first launched in Denmark , before spreading to the US and UK in A statement from BeautifulPeople. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies.
BeautifulPeople is a platform where current members vet who joins the dating site. Last updated: July BeautifulPeople has one kind of membership offered in three different duration packages.
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6/27/2024
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