Abstract
Raymond Choo and his colleagues at the University of South Australia In Adelaide have shown that it is easy to hack into popular dating apps like Tinder and Grindr to reveal private data. They used a Samsung Galaxy S3 phone to create fake profiles on eight of the most popular dating apps in the Google Play store and then tried to steal data. They did this by capturing the phone's network traffic and trawling the apps' private directories on the phone. All the apps had security flaws. On Tinder, for example, the group pulled up images of the profiles the person had viewed, and records of whether they were a match. On gay hook-up app Grindr, the team accessed data about people the user had checked out including dates of birth, their distance from the user on last viewing and a database of sent and received messages, as well as the user's email address
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