<story><title>Dating Apps Exposed 845 GB of Explicit Photos, Chats, and More</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/dating-apps-leak-explicit-photos-screenshots/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whatever1</author><text>We need a certification org like ISO to look into the practices of any data storing web service. Until recently we neglected it because the outsiders thought that it is straightforward to do so, but time after time we see ridiculous mistakes exposing sensitive data &amp;amp; passwords. This has to end yesterday. It is fine to fall victim of an elaborate hacking attack and lose customer data, it is not fine to not even follow a bare minimum of practices to protect their data.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dating Apps Exposed 845 GB of Explicit Photos, Chats, and More</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/dating-apps-leak-explicit-photos-screenshots/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sosuke</author><text>Looks like the developer in question took action to correct the situation the same day they became aware of it. That at least is good.&lt;p&gt;If the data was never secured in the first place can you call it a breach?&lt;p&gt;They found this, great, was there any indication it was accessed directly before that? Is that something that can even be investigated?&lt;p&gt;You find a door to the data unlocked. You open the door. Can you tell if someone else had opened the door before you? Did you prevent 845 GB of data being found by a black hat or did you find that data because of a black hat?</text></comment>