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Color Dating data breach (2018)

In September 2018, the dating app to match people with different ethnicities Color Dating suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 220k unique email addresses along with bios, names, profile photos and bcrypt password hashes.

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Color Dating
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220.5K
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Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2018-09-05, Color Dating was affected by a data breach. Approximately 220,503 accounts were exposed. In September 2018, the dating app to match people with different ethnicities Color Dating suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The breach exposed 220k unique email addresses along with bios, names, profile photos and bcrypt password hashes.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#ColorDating
  2. colordatingapp.comhttps://colordatingapp.com

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