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Are You on Tinder? Someone May Be Watching You Swipe

Posted on January 24, 2018June 25, 2025 by Dissent

Dafna Zahger reports:

The Checkmarx Security Research Team found disturbing vulnerabilities in a highly popular dating application used by people across the globe – Tinder. The report features how a malicious attacker can take advantage of these vulnerabilities to cause serious privacy breaches to an unsuspecting user.

Are you a Tinder user? As Rockwell described in his famous song, if you always feel like someone’s watching you, and you have no privacy – chances are, you might be right. After undergoing the responsible disclosure procedure with Tinder’s security team, Checkmarx’s Security Research Team decided to release their research describing two major Tinder vulnerabilities.

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1 thought on “Are You on Tinder? Someone May Be Watching You Swipe”

  1. anonymous says:
    February 1, 2018 at 4:05 pm

    All very creepy. Makes you wonder about many apps, not just tinder

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