Millions of users of the gay dating app Jack’d have reportedly had their intimate pictures leaked online.

A security flaw means that anyone with a web browser (who knows where to look) can find selfies that users have uploaded.

According to tech site The Register, Jack’d was first made aware of the flaw three months ago but has so far failed to fix it.

The Jack’d app has been downloaded over 110,000 times on Google Android devices (Image: Google Play)

Jack’d lets its users upload some very NSFW snaps to their profile. But it turns out you don’t even need an account to find the leaked snaps online.


Not to mention that this is a dating app aimed at the gay community which comes with a whole host of other concerns specific to this userbase. There's really no good excuse for this. Fix your shit, Jack'd… — H E X A (@hexadecim8) February 7, 2019

At present, there doesn’t seem to be a way to connect the pictures with an individual account. However, other tech sites are suggesting that location data and other metadata about users may be publicly available.

Users have been urged to delete their pictures (Getty)

Meanwhile, Jack’d’s parent company Online Buddies has not responded to Oliver Hough, the security researcher who discovered the security flaw.



‘They acknowledged my report but then just went silent and did nothing,’ Mr Hough told the BBC.

Users are being urged to delete their images until a fix is issued in an update.