Grindr Hacked By Evil Aussie! Your D!@# Pics May Soon Hit The Internet

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Grindr Hacked By Evil Aussie! Your D!@# Pics May Soon Hit The Internet
By:           Evan Mulvihill
On:           Jan 20, 2012

Rutrow! Gay hookup app Grindr has been compromised by a hacker based in 
Sydney, Australia, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

The hacker found a frighteningly easy way to log in as a user other than 
yourself, impersonate them, and steal any and all revealing pictures that 
had been exchanged in "romancing" sessions.

Now Grindr CEO Joel Simkhai and his underlings are scrambling to put out a 
patch that blocks the security loophole. "We are certainly aware of a lot 
of these vulnerabilities and they will be fixed as fast as humanly 
possible," he said.

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