Cybercrime and Valentine’s Day: What to Look Out For

This advisory outlines privacy and security risks associated with dating apps—highlighting past large-scale data leaks (e.g., Ashley Madison), API/data exposure (Bumble), pervasive bot and scam activity, and the use of exposed personal information to enable social-engineering, account takeover, and fraud—then provides practical user-level mitigations such as strong passwords, MFA, limiting shared PII, using VoIP/virtual cards, reverse image searches, and reporting suspicious links.