They said, “to assist us in investigating what happened and confirm that there is no ongoing unauthorized access to our systems.” Roughly 7,714 Washington residents were affected by the incident.Īfter the attack, Manhunt hired a third-party cybersecurity firm to investigate the matter further. Manhunt started notifying its customers last month to let them know about the breach. We immediately took steps to remediate the threat and reset the passwords of affected users.” The company posted this in their data breach notification, “On March 2, 2021, Manhunt discovered that an attacker gained access to a database that stored account credentials for Manhunt users.” “The attacker downloaded the usernames, email addresses, and passwords for a subset of our users. Also mentioned in the breach notice, an unknown attacker had downloaded the data in February. According to the social networking/dating website, around 6 million men were affected by the data breach. Upon learning of the data breach, on March 2, Manhunt forced a reset of all user passwords.
The stolen information included full names, usernames, email addresses, and passwords to their accounts on the platform. The hacker obtained access to the website’s main database, and after fraudulently logging in, they stole personal details belonging to Manhunt customers. What Happened?Īccording to a data breach notice filed on April 1 with the Washington attorney general’s office, Manhunt was the subject of a data breach that occurred in February. Infosecurity Magazine reported this week that dating website Manhunt suffered a data breach.