Grindr Hacked: 100,000 Users' Profiles Compromised

"We are certainly aware of a lot of these vulnerabilities," said Grindr founder Joel Simkhai. "They will be fixed as fast as humanly possible."

According to Simkhai, users should look out for security update within the next few days. But in the meantime, let's all go easy on the pics.

Update: CEO Joel Simkhai has released an official statement:

"Like other responsible companies, we don't comment on specifics of security enhancements or allegations about network issues - that wouldn't serve the security of our users, our networks, or web security in general. As a result of Grindr's ongoing investigation, we took legal and technological actions to block a site that violated our terms of service. This site impacted a small number of primarily Australian Grindr users and it remains shut down. Blendr users were not affected by this.

We continuously make improvements to our platform to increase security across our networks. We are releasing a mandatory update to our apps over the next few days to enhance security. When the update is available, users will be notified via in-app messaging, on Twitter and on the Grindr blog. Our users can be assured that Grindr does not retain chat history, credit card information, or addresses--and no such information was ever compromised."

Photo: Grindr