There were also persons familiar with the matter on the basis that the information went on sale in 2017, while Grindr fixed the bug two years ago. This security bug made it impossible for third parties to buy data for million users of Grindr without having knowledge of any users.
The Wall Street Journal indicates that the gay dating app suffered from issues between 20 due to the advertising biases.
Agora-based dating app Grindr had a privacy flaw that left millions of users’ location data open and stolen.