ShellCodeX Breach Report
MeetMindful Data Breach
meetmindful.com
Verified breach
Sensitive
Passwords exposed
Accounts exposed
1,422,717
Breach date
26 Jan 2020
Added to tracker
31 Jan 2021
Data classes
16
What happened
In early 2020, the online dating service MeetMindful suffered a data breach that exposed 1.4 million unique customer email addresses. Included in the data was an extensive array of personal information used to find romantic matches including physical attributes, use of alcohol, drugs and cigarettes, marital statuses, birthdates, genders and the gender being sought. Additional personal information such as names, geographical locations and IP addresses were also exposed, along with passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
Exposed data
Dates of birth
Drinking habits
Drug habits
Email addresses
Genders
Geographic locations
IP addresses
Marital statuses
Names
Passwords
Physical attributes
Religions
Sexual orientations
Smoking habits
Social media profiles
Usernames
Recommended actions
- Change your MeetMindful 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 MeetMindful — 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.
Am I affected?
Check whether your email address appears in this breach.
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