What Happened
In June 2013, the dating and social networking site Badoo suffered an alleged data breach—later discovered circulating among hackers in 2016—that exposed personal information from over 112 million unique email addresses and up to 125 million records total, including usernames, first and last names, full birthdates, genders, and passwords hashed with the weak MD5 algorithm. The incident’s legitimacy remains unverified due to inconsistencies in the data and lack of emphatic confirmation from Badoo, though multiple indicators like password reset validations suggest authenticity, categorizing it as a significant but uncertain compromise of user privacy on the platform. No specific hacking method or company response details are available across sources.
