Overview

• Two class-action lawsuits filed Monday in the Northern District of California accuse the app of negligence, breach of implied contract and name X and 4chan as defendants for circulating stolen data.
• Initial investigations by 404 Media traced the breach back to 4Chan, a male-dominated online message board.
• Hackers accessed about 72,000 verification selfies and photo IDs plus over a million private messages covering sensitive subjects such as abortions and cheating.
• Critics warn that reliance on unregulated user-driven safety tools like AI-driven Catfish Finder and selfie-ID verification creates fresh security vulnerabilities.
• Founded in 2023 by Sean Cook after his mother was catfished, the women-only platform had grown to 1.7 million users before the breach forced an urgent security overhaul.