Security and Privacy Issues Found in Popular Dating Apps

## Executive summary This research report evaluates 14 popular mobile dating applications (28 iOS and Android apps) and finds pervasive security and privacy issues: high rates of insecure communications and storage, widespread vulnerability to reverse engineering, and significant failure to meet basic mobile security standards (OWASP Mobile Top 10). The findings indicate substantial risk to user data and device identifiers across many apps, though the report presents aggregated research results and does not describe a specific active exploitation or confirmed large-scale data breach.