As romance scammers turn dating apps into "hunting grounds," critics look to Match Group to do more

The week Roth's hiring was announced, CBS News caught up with Match Group CEO Bernard Kim ahead of a public event. In a brief interview, he defended the company's record, saying it has invested "a ... Read More

Gay dating app Grindr faces lawsuit from hundreds of users who claim private information including their HIV status was shared without consent

Gay dating app Grindr is facing ... £5.5million in 2021 for selling user data to advertisers after an investigation on a complaint from the Norwegian Consumer Council. Read More

Don’t share your location on dating apps: Experts found users’ coordinates with scary accuracy

SEE ALSO: LGBTQ spaces are needed now more than ever. Here’s what people mapping them have to say. Dating apps frequently utilize location data to facilitate connections between users ... Read More

NYC dating app users swindled out of $100K in ‘pig butchering’ phony crypto scam

“He was using actual financial terms, and he sounded legit,” a victim identified only as E said of the scammer she met on the dating app Hinge in a video shared by the DA office. Two Brooklyn ... Read More

LGBTQ+ dating app continuing to grow since its launch nearly 10 years ago

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — A dating app for the LGBTQ+ community focused on queer women and gender-diverse people continues to grow with more than 13 million users ... in the LGBTQ community and ... Read More

QR Code Warning: Users Beware!

However, the Federal Trade Commission has issued a new warning about these handy codes. From your TV screen to your favorite restaurant, they seem to be everywhere you look. QR codes, short for ... Read More

FTC Warns Makers of Background Checking Apps

Red Hat has announced the Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services (AWS), which can take advantage of Amazon's cloud while at the same time offering... Microsoft has entered into a broad ... Read More

FTC warns of spring break vacation scams and how to avoid them

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Federal Trade Commission has officially warned spring breakers about the potential of vacation scams heading ... problem is that you as the consumer have to do some due ... Read More

Nearly 700K impacted by Israeli LGBTQ dating app breach

Hackread reports that widely known Israeli LGBTQ dating app Atraf had a database containing information from 669,672 users potentially stolen from a 2021 attack by Iranian state-sponsored threat ... Read More

Online dating scams peak ahead of Valentine's Day. Here are warning signs.

More people on dating apps are being targeted by scammers using bots and artificial intelligence, according to experts. Read More

9 Best Dating Apps Of 2024

We weigh metrics based on what we deem to be most important to the consumer ... “The good news is, many dating apps now have measures to prevent their users from getting catfished, such as ... Read More

Meet Your Neighbor: Eye on Scams - Beware of Dating App Scammers

Both Metz and Hill had been shot and later set on fire in their cars. The two had been dating for only three months. The North Lafayette Redevelopment authority (NLRA) seems to be on the chopping ... Read More