It's a site that only lets in the genetically blessed based on some mysterious beauty metric – and today the personal data of 1.1 million BeautifulPeople.com It's only a slice of data from 2015, and the company says the leak's been patched up, but data once stolen can never be controlled: and so 1.1 million names of self-declared Beautiful People will now begin circulating. Like the Ashley Madison hack – which left 39 million people on a dating site for married people exposed and their names suddenly searchable – there's a joy in shaming people who would sign up for such a thing. "Online dating for beautiful people only," the website announces. "BeautifulPeople.com is the largest internet dating community exclusively for the beautiful," it reads.

Hacked data from more than 1.1m members of an'elite' dating site has been sold online, it has been claimed. The controversial site, BeautifulPeople.com, was hacked in November and details including sexual preferences, income, addresses and 15 million messages between users were stolen. Now it has been claimed by Forbes the data has been sold online to a mystery buyer. The controversial site, BeautifulPeople.com, was hacked in November and details including sexual preferences, income, addresses and 15 million messages between users were stolen. BeautifulPeople is the first community of its kind.