Dating application Tinder helps users find love – and flings – but a researcher revealed this week that an easy-to-exploit security bug recently left accounts and private chats exposed to hackers. Indian engineer Anand Prakash, a serial bug hunter, said in a Medium post on Wednesday, February 20, that a flaw in a Facebook-linked program called Account Kit let attackers access profiles armed with just a phone number. Account Kit, implemented into Tinder, is used by developers to let users log in to a range of apps using mobile details or email addresses without a password.
ORIGINAL SOURCE: Newsweek
