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The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.

From 2025.

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[–] cotlovan@lemmy.world 60 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

I thought that they were deleting the photos immediately after verification. They didn't??? Why aren't these companies being investigated and punished?

[–] SirHaxalot@nord.pub 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

This is from the leak last year. What leaked was pictures uploaded to their ticket system to appeal the result of a failed verification.

[–] III@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

...so you are saying their verification process is so broken that hundreds of thousands of people had to appeal a false reading. Broken and insecure, what a look.

[–] StabbingSky@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

It depends on the ratio of failed to successful, really. If there are hundreds of millions of successful verifications, that's a fairly low failure rate.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 20 points 17 hours ago

Because money. We'll soon have to take things into our own hands, as the establishment only protects itself, and not us plebs.

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 5 points 15 hours ago

Why? For example, XING just got sold and with it all personal information. This is why they didn't.

[–] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

It would be a clear gdpr violation in Europe