Just days before Valentine's Day, hackers hack into the dating site Meetmindful.com, which was founded in 2014, stealing the details of over 2.28 million registered users.
Among these, names, emails, addresses, dates of birth, IP addresses, geolocations and credentials to enter Facebook.
Not the first of its kind, the practice of 'sextortion' is used by hackers: they write to affected users and threaten them to make their sensitive data public unless they pay a ransom.
The stolen data, a 1.2GB file, appears to be a theft of the user database, explains the specialized site ZDnet reporting the news, and was shared as a free download on a publicly accessible hacking forum.
The content of this file includes a large amount of information provided by users when setting up profiles on the MeetMindful site and mobile apps, but not the messages exchanged by users.
The leaked file has been viewed more than 1,500 times and most likely downloaded, notes ZDnet.
The data was released by ShinyHunters, which earlier this week also leaked the details of millions of registered users on Teespring, a portal that allows users to create and sell custom clothing.
A similar precedent, but of a much greater magnitude, occurred in 2015 when the Ashley Madison website, also active in Italy, was hacked and data of 32 million people were published.