25 Apr Deep Dive Into Major Dating App Breach That Exposed Private Images
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine
–Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 25, 2025
TechRadar Pro recently reported that five dating apps exposed over 1.5 million private and explicit images after storing the images in cloud storage buckets without any password protection.
Cybersecurity researchers found the image servers of BDSM People, Chica, Pink, Brish, and Translove to be highly vulnerable to hackers, putting between 800,000 and 900,000 people at risk of blackmail and extortion.
The five sites are all from developer M.A.D Mobile, who was notified of the exposed servers on Jan. 20 but did not remediate the issue until Mar. 28, after the cybersecurity researchers published a report on the exposed servers.
Cybercrime Magazine deputy editor Amanda Glassner is joined by cybersecurity expert Heather Engel on our podcast for a deep dive into what happened, who’s exposed, and what could have been done to prevent the breach.
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