{"id":7326,"date":"2019-02-09T13:25:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T13:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/jackd-gay-dating-app-exposes-millions-of-private-photos\/"},"modified":"2019-02-09T13:25:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T13:25:34","slug":"jackd-gay-dating-app-exposes-millions-of-private-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/jackd-gay-dating-app-exposes-millions-of-private-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack’d gay dating app exposes millions of private photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A security flaw in gay dating app Jack’d left private intimate photos publicly exposed on the internet.<\/p>\n

Anyone with a web browser who knew where to look could access millions of private photos, even if they did not have a Jack’d account.<\/p>\n

Researcher Oliver Hough told BBC News he had reported the flaw to Jack’d a year ago.<\/p>\n

The company has not responded to a request for comment, but it appeared to implement a fix on Thursday.<\/p>\n

News site The Register<\/a> first reported the flaw on 5 February, even though it had not been fixed at the time, in order to warn the app’s users.<\/p>\n

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Jack’d has been downloaded more than five million times on the Google Play app store.<\/p>\n

It lets members add “private” photos to their profile, which should be visible to only specific people they have chosen to share them with.<\/p>\n

However, Mr Hough found that all the photos shared in the app were uploaded to the same open web server, leaving them exposed.<\/p>\n

BBC News saw evidence that private photos were still publicly available on the web server as of Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

According to news website Ars Technica<\/a>, the app had also leaked “location data and other metadata about users”.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the company’s chief executive, Mark Girolamo, told Ars Technica a fix would be deployed on Thursday<\/p>\n

However, Jack’d has not yet issued a statement addressing the flaw.<\/p>\n

“They acknowledged my report but then just went silent and did nothing,” Mr Hough told BBC News.<\/p>\n

“A journalist contacted them in November and they did the same.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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