A Taiwanese date app for sapphic and queer adult female exposed the profiles and individual data of over 5.3 million users , TechCrunch reportedon Wednesday , possibly since June 2018 .
The app , Rela , reportedly go away from app depot in 2017 , withReuters notingsimilar apps had been taken down by the Cyberspace Administration of China in the past times . However , it returned a twelvemonth later . According to TechCrunch , security researcherVictor Geversrecently found that extensive personal entropy on gazillion of users was exposed on a server that lack a password , including “ nicknames , particular date of birth , height and weight , ethnicity , and intimate taste and interests . ” That server also leave over 20 million status updates exposed , Gevers told TechCrunch .
China decriminalized “ malicious mischief , ” whichthe Atlantic reportedwas “ widely assume to include gayness , though the law was never explicit on this point ” in 1997 . In 2001 , the Chinese Psychiatric Association deemed that same - sexual urge attractionis not a mental illness . Reutersreported before this yearthat the Chinese government had agreed to United Nations Human Rights Council recommendations on LGBTQ+ right , and it noted that the Carry Nation has a “ vibrant LGBT+ scene . ”
However , Reuters also write no domestic laws nix discrimination against LGBTQ+ people and the government often set up crackdowns on the homo rights movement and on-line content .
TechCrunch wrote :
“ The privacy of five - plus million LGBTQ+ mass confront a mass of societal challenge in China because their are no laws protecting them from secernment , ” tell Gevers . “ This datum leak that has been open for years make it even more damaging for the the great unwashed involved who were disclose . ”
In a brief reply , a party representative affirm the database had been secured .
Chinese company Kunlun owns 60 pct of U.S. date app Grindr , but is reportinglooking to sellits stake under insistency from U.S. regulator worry its foreign ownership is a security risk of infection .
[ TechCrunch ]
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