Stephen Moore
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their security was so bad it would make your grandma's AOL account blush you know there was no security to basically didn't even need to hack it all she did was put in something up in the URL domain and all the information for the entire site came out so basically she then wiped it clean while live on stage
Yeah, she went into them and she was able to download all the information.
But I think it was 100 gigabytes of information, which amounted to 8,000 profiles across Europe and mainly, well, it was all Europe and North America.
And then she posted, they posted them.
Well, thanks to Martha, whoever Martha is, she very generously
posted basically a map location, because on the profile you had to say where you were from.
So she basically had very simple data that would show where each profile was based.
So there was a little icon you could go in and put a map up on another site.
You could then go in and focus in on each.
Now, there wasn't, I'm quite glad to say, there wasn't like there was thousands or even hundreds of people in Ireland.
I think there was about between 40 and 50 from what I could see, and I managed to get as many as I could.
I think a lot of them managed to get it taken down.
She offered a deletion service, which if they contacted them through GDPR, she would remove that information.
So about two days after I initially found out, there was a friend of mine who works for computers that sent me the link, although I'd never heard about it.
They'd all been, all the ones in Ireland had been removed, so you wouldn't have known.
No, from what I could see, nobody posted any photographs.
I know in other parts of Europe and the UK, they did post photographs.