Color Dating Data Breach

What happened

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.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Color Dating password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
• Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
• Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Color Dating — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Exposed identity data raises identity-theft risk — consider credit monitoring or a credit freeze.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.