Hack Brief: Site for ‘Beautiful’ People Suffers Ugly Million-Member Breach

BeautifulPeople.com, you may remember, is a dating site that allows members to vote on hopeful enlistees based on their looks, ensuring that people who belong meet certain standards of both attractiveness and shallowness. It bills itself as “a dating site where existing members hold the key to the door.” Turns out, the site maybe should have put them in charge of server security, as well. The personal data of 1.1 million members is currently for sale on the black market, after hackers took it from an insecure database.