BeautifulPeople.com boasts ‘online dating for beautiful people only’,and at first there’s a delight to watching the mighty plunge. But it could happen to any of us
Theres a schadenfreude to the news today that the dating site BeautifulPeople.com was hacked. It’s a site that only lets in the genetically blessed based on some mysterious beauty metric – and today the personal data of 1.1 million BeautifulPeople.com members is for sale on the black market. It’s only a slice of data from 2015, and the company says the leak’s been patched up, or but data once stolen can never be controlled: and so 1.1 million names of self-declared Beautiful People will now originate circulating. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com