Guardian Soulmates dating website suffers data breach

Users of the dating website Guardian Soulmates have received explicit emails following a data breach. The email addresses and Soulmates usernames were exposed by a third-party service provider, according to Guardian News and Media (GNM), which has run the online dating service since 2004. GNM said: "We can confirm we have received 27 inquiries from our members which show evidence of their email addresses used for their Soulmates account having been exposed. Our ongoing investigations point to a human error by one of our third-party technology providers, which led to an exposure of an extract of data." The problem, which has now been fixed, made it possible to find Soulmates members' publicly available online dating profiles via the leaked data.