Beautifulpeople.com, an elite¹ dating website for the exclusively good looking, has reportedly had the private data of more than 1 million users leaked.

 

Beautifulpeople.com是仅对美貌人士开放的精英相亲交友网站，据报道，其一百多万用户的隐私数据遭到泄露。

 

The breach² leaked information such as addresses, sexual preferences and incomes, as well as millions of private messages, sold online by the hackers³.

 

Beautifulpeople.com claims to exclude unattractive people by having existing members rate those trying to sign up. Prospective⁴ members must pass a certain ratings threshold to be allowed on the website: millions have been denied access, the company says, while thousands of members have been removed for gaining weight after joining.

 

The site claims to be "the largest dating community of attractive people in the world" and to have spawned⁵ 700 marriages.

 

It says several members have been "discovered" on the website and gone on to jobs in TV or modelling. In 2011, it claimed that a "Shrek" virus had allowed thousands of unworthy people to join the website, although this was dismissed as a publicity⁶ stunt⁷.

 

Beautifulpeople.com was originally hacked⁸ in December, when the breach appeared to be confined to a database of test accounts. However, the data of real users is now being traded online, security expert Troy Hunt told Forbes.

 

Dozens of different details are reportedly included in the leak, among them education, phone numbers and location data.

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