Last week, officials from Grindr (the gay location-based hook-up app) confirmed to Gizmodo that accounts belonging to a “small number of primarily Australian users” had been compromised and some details placed on a since-taken down website. The SMH broke the story, and is now reporting that to date, no complaint has been filed against the “hacker” – one ‘Mr Nasty’, who was 18 when this all went down around July last year. [SMH]
How’s your Friday night going? If you’re planning to hook-up or get flirty tonight via those Grindr (LGBT) or Blendr (straight) location-based hook-up apps – and hey, Grindr alone has around 100,000 Aussie members — heads up: the SMH says hackers have found a way to impersonate users and log-into your account. Updated
Adafruit’s $US2,000 bounty for an open source Kinect driver hack was only offered up late last week and already someone has allegedly delivered, said Adafruit’s Phillip Torrone in an email to us just now. This was inevitable.
My friend Leander has a story about a hacker claiming to have access to Steve Jobs’ Amazon account, and his entire shopping history for 5 years—20 thousand items! Seems odd.[Cult of Mac]
