The website, registered on July 14 last year, allowed the hacker to search for any Grindr user regardless of their location, and capitalised on the vulnerabilities to offer other services not designed by the apps. That website was shut down after Friday's interview with Fairfax Media after he sought legal action. He could not say how many people had attempted to take advantage of the vulnerabilities but said a website created by the hacker had exploited some of the flaws in Grindr. they will be fixed as fast as humanly possible,' he said. 'We are certainly aware of a lot of these vulnerabilities and. 'That's something that I am aware of and we certainly have a team in place that are working to prevent that.'īut by Tuesday Mr Simkhai admitted that he was 'aware of some vulnerabilities' but he would not talk about them in detail to avoid a hacker exploiting them. 'We get people trying to hack into our servers,' he said. In a telephone interview about the vulnerabilities last Friday he said it was news to him about the potential for text chats to be monitored and claimed the company had never experienced a 'major breach' in which a large portion of users were affected. He said he had originally been waiting until new architecture was built 'within weeks' but was now releasing an update to both apps 'over the next few days'. The founder of the apps, Joel Simkhai, conceded both were vulnerable and he was rushing to release a patch to address the issues. Fairfax Media is not aware that Blendr has been hacked but the potential was there, according to the security expert. The vulnerabilities are also present in Blendr, the straight version of the app, according to a security expert who said both apps had 'no real security' and were 'poorly designed'.

Grindr subscription hack