Plenty of Fish app was leaking users’ hidden names and postal codes

Plenty of Fish app was leaking users’ hidden names and postal codes

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https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/23/plenty-of-fish-app-data-leak/

Dating app Plenty of Fish has pushed out a fix for its apps after a security researcher found they were leaking information that users had set to “private” on their profiles.

The app was always silently returning users’ first names and Zip postal codes to the app, according to The App Analyst, a mobile expert who writes about his analyses of popular apps on his eponymous blog.

Plenty of Fish app was leaking users’ hidden names and postal codes

Dec 23, 2019, 6:18pm UTC
https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/23/plenty-of-fish-app-data-leak/ > Dating app Plenty of Fish has pushed out a fix for its apps after a security researcher found they were leaking information that users had set to “private” on their profiles. > The app was always silently returning users’ first names and Zip postal codes to the app, according to The App Analyst, a mobile expert who writes about his analyses of popular apps on his eponymous blog.