Coffee Meets Bagel says recent outage caused by destructive cyberattack
The Coffee Meets Bagel dating platform confirms last week's outage was caused by hackers breaching the company's systems and deleting company data.
The dating platform says they are geared towards users looking for a serious relationship rather than casual dating.
Last week, Coffee Meets Bagel (CMB) suffered a worldwide outage, with users upset that they could not coordinate planned dates or continue communicating with their matches.
Today, CMB confirmed that the outages were caused by their systems being breached and a hacker deleting company data, causing the production servers to no longer operate correctly.
"We determined that the outage was the result of an outside actor who maliciously deleted company data and files," reads an outage FAQ from Coffee Meets Bagel.
"We quickly re-established a secure environment for our technology team to restore our production services and notified law enforcement about this incident."
At this time, Coffee Meets Bagel has not conf
