Plenty of Fish app was leaking users’ hidden names and postal codes

guest · Dec 25, 2019

Plenty of Fish app was leaking users’ hidden names and postal codes
December 23, 2019
https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/23/plenty-of-fish-app-data-leak/

Dating app Plenty of Fish has pushed out a fix for its app after a security researcher found it was leaking information that users had set to “private” on their profiles.

The app was always silently returning users’ first names and postal ZIP codes, according to The App Analyst, a mobile expert who writes about his analyses of popular apps on his eponymous blog.
The leaking data was not immediately visible to app users, and the data was scrambled to make it difficult to read. But using freely available tools designed to analyze network traffic, the researcher found it was possible to reveal the information about users as their profiles appeared on his phone.

In one case, the App Analyst found enough information to identify where a particular user lived, he told TechCrunch.
Click to expand...

The App Analyst: App Analysis: Plenty of Fish

Log in or Sign up

Plenty of Fish app was leaking users’ hidden names and postal codes

guest Guest

Log in or Sign up

Plenty of Fish app was leaking users’ hidden names and postal codes

guest Guest

Useful Searches