Misconfigured Dating Site Database Exposed Details of 1.5 Million "Cheaters"

A New Zealand-based company has secured a database holding information on over 1.5 million users that have signed up for several of the dating sites and mobile application the company operates.

C&Z Tech Limited, the dating site operator, had secured the database in question after security experts from the Mackeeper Security Research Center had alerted the company to the issue.

In an email sent to the Mackeeper team, C&Z said the database contained only test data, an assessment which the Mackeeper team does not believe to be true.

[CITATION]Thanks for letting us know, the MongoDB database was only live for a few hours as we were testing migrating data from SQL to MongoDB, so most of them were just dummy data with randomly generated emails and passwords, and not our live database, we shut down the database about an hour ago, and there're no data breach, only you guys had detected it.[/CITATION]

C&Z Tech Limited operates several dating sites such as haveafling.mobi,...