Japan: hacked dating app share crashes on stock market

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Omiai, one of the most popular dating apps in Japan, has been the victim of widespread hacking.

An operation that caused its share to fall on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday, May 24.

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Personal data of 1.7 million users of a Japanese dating app could have been compromised in a hack in late April, warned its operator, whose stock collapsed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday. .

Net Marketing Co, the company behind the Omiai dating app, announced on Friday that more than 1.7 million of its past and present users were potentially affected.

Copies of identity documents, used to verify the age of users, are among the documents that may have been leaked, Net Marketing said in a statement.

Nearly 7 million users

Banking information is not affected because it is managed separately through a financial company, again according to Net Marketing.

These revelations plunged the Net Marketing stock market on Monday in Tokyo: its share collapsed by more than 19% at the close.

Omiai, which in Japanese means arranged dating between singles, is among the most popular apps of its genre in Japan, with an emphasis on finding serious relationships.

The platform had nearly 6.9 million users in April.

Online dating sites and apps are regularly the target of hackers such as the American site 

MeetMindful, which was the

victim of personal data theft last January: the information of more than 2 million users was hacked.

In 2016, several important English-speaking sites had suffered the same insults.

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