Shame hacking: attack on dating site for 'beautiful people' is actually pretty scary

BeautifulPeople.com boasts 'online dating for beautiful people only', and at first there's a joy to watching the mighty fall. But it could happen to any of us

There's a schadenfreude to the news today that the dating site BeautifulPeople.com was hacked.

It's a site that only lets in the genetically blessed based on some mysterious beauty metric - and today the personal data of 1.1 million BeautifulPeople.com members is for sale on the black market. It's only a slice of data from 2015, and the company says the leak's been patched up, but data once stolen can never be controlled: and so 1.1 million names of self-declared Beautiful People will now begin circulating.