{"id":207874,"date":"2026-01-29T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/shinyhunters-claims-it-stole10m-records-from-dating-apps-the-register\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T15:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:35:08","slug":"shinyhunters-claims-it-stole10m-records-from-dating-apps-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/shinyhunters-claims-it-stole10m-records-from-dating-apps-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"ShinyHunters claims it stole10M records from dating apps \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/01\/29\/shinyhunters_match_group\/\">ShinyHunters claims it stole10M records from dating apps \u2022 The Register<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/01\/29\/shinyhunters_match_group\/\">https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/01\/29\/shinyhunters_match_group\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-29 10:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theregister.com\">www.theregister.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ShinyHunters has added a fresh notch to its breach belt, claiming it has pinched more than 10 million records from Match Group, a US firm that owns some of the world&#8217;s most widely used swipe-based dating platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The extort-and-leak crew says the stolen haul includes user data tied to Hinge, Match.com, and OkCupid, as well as hundreds of internal documents. A listing on ShinyHunters&#8217; dark web leak site, seen by The Register, claims &#8220;over 10 million lines&#8221; of data, and points to AppsFlyer, a marketing analytics provider, as the apparent source of the exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Match Group confirmed to The Register that it is investigating what it described as a &#8220;recently identified security incident,&#8221; and that some user data has likely been accessed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Match Group takes the safety and security of our users seriously and acted quickly to terminate the unauthorized access,&#8221; a spokesperson said. &#8220;We continue to investigate with the assistance of external cybersecurity experts. There is no indication that user login credentials, financial information, or private communications were accessed. We believe the incident affects a limited amount of user data, and we are already in the process of notifying individuals, as appropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company declined to say what types of data were accessed, how many customers were affected, or whether a ransom demand had been made or paid.<\/p>\n<p>Security news outlet Cybernews, which analyzed samples tied to the listing, said the trove appears to include personal customer data, some employee details, and internal corporate material. Its review also flagged Hinge subscription information in the mix, including user IDs, transaction IDs, amounts paid, and records linked to blocked installations, alongside IP addresses and location data.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate post this week, ShinyHunters also said it had stolen data from rival dating service Bumble,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/01\/29\/shinyhunters_match_group\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShinyHunters claims it stole10M records from dating apps \u2022 The Register https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/01\/29\/shinyhunters_match_group\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-29&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2026\/01\/29\/shutterstock_1100605982.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,24],"class_list":["post-207874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207876,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207874\/revisions\/207876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}