Hacker Claims to Have Sold 27M Mate1.com Passwords

Joseph Cox reports:

A hacker on the dark web forum Hell claims to have sold the email addresses and plaintext passwords of over 27 million users of dating site Mate1.com.

“Their server was compromised and the MySQL database was dumped,” the hacker, who asked to remain anonymous, told Motherboard. “I had shell/command access to their server.”

Read more on Motherboard.

There doesn’t seem to be any statement on Mate1.com’s web site as of the time of this posting.

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