The popular gay hook-up app Grindr, which spawned a sexual revolution in Australia and across the world, is facing an investigation by the US Congress after it emerged that a number of vulnerabilities allowed for the app to be easily hacked.
Two members of the US Congress have written to Grindr chief executive Joel Simkhai demanding answers about security vulnerabilities in the app following Fairfax Media's January report that a young Sydneysider was able to hack it.
The hacker discovered a way to log in as another Grindr user, see their favourites, chat and send photos on their behalf and made use of some of the vulnerabilities to look at other users' favourites and change their profile pictures.
I don't really mind. The development and staff need a wake up call anyway.
Grindr has always been a **** app and is just now beginning to become usable in my opinion, especially the Android counterpart( BBOS is even worst but BB users are used to janky software by now anyway). The idea of Grindr is fine but the Software developers need to get it together, the app has been plagued with memory leaking issues, gps issues, random profile pics being flagged/taken down/not even uploaded correctly and not to mention the insane size the picture cache can get.
I think their are much bigger issues, and security threats that need to be taken care of on the web, but I hope they drag Grindr to the abyss and back just because I would love to see a better app in the end.