She continues: “You know what, it is when my skin is healthy, and my hair is healthy, that I feel most confident. ↑ "Topface for Android: questions and answers".‘We have paid an award for finding a vulnerability and agreed on further cooperation in the field of data security,’ Filatov said in an email on Friday, declining to disclose the size of the reward. ↑ "Online Dating Site Topface Pays Hacker to Not Reveal Email Addresses".Speaking to IBTimes UK, the hacker said the reason for the attack was not to sell the stolen information but to highlight the fact that millions of fake profiles are used by all dating websites, which the hacker calls ‘outrageous’ and ‘a dirty business’. "Mastermind hacker leaks 20 million email addresses to highlight fake dating site profiles". ↑ "Most Innovative Companies 2013 in Russia".↑ "Zoosk, Badoo, TopFace, Onedate and more on the top 20 Facebook dating apps by MAU".Topface is a freemium service and its revenue is based on both in-app ads and in-app purchases. Various additional features are available for VIP-users and can be purchased for 'Coins' (an in-app currency). If a Like is mutual, users can start messaging one another. Browsing the feed, a user can send a 'Like' to another user and receive a 'Like' in return. The service's main feature is photo rating. The service enables looking for penpals, the pursuit of cultural exchange, or "maybe even something more." According to its owners, Topface had been gaining 3 million users a day in its heyday. In September 2015, Filatov announced on his Facebook page that Topface had registered 100 million users. Ī week later it was reported that Filatov, Topface's CEO, said that the company and the hacker had arrived at a mutually satisfactory arrangement that included a monetary reward paid to the hacker, and future cooperation regarding site security. The attacker, going under the moniker Mastermind, told reporters that the purpose of the attack was to raise awareness of the practice of dating websites using fake profiles to attract users. In January 2015, an attacker obtained 20 million email addresses of Topface users.
According to Fast Company, Topface earned the tenth spot on its list for "championing a local, online dating scene". In 2013, Fast Company listed Topface as one of its ten Russian innovative companies of the year. In 2012, Topface was 4thFacebook dating app by MAU with 3,5 million unique users in a month. In its first year, Topface acquired 37 million users. This new service provides messaging and social features. This idea evolved into something bigger, and in 2011, Topface launched as an online dating service. In 2010 Sonetica, a company owned by Dmitry Filatov and an undisclosed partner, purchased a popular VK app called FaceRate (Russian: Лицемер) that allowed users to rate each other’s photos.
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