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Oxford University dating website for staff and students shut down after ‘huge data breach’
Anvee Bhutani | Emma Yeomans
Monday January 09 2023, 6.45pm, The Times
OxShag promised to send out matches on Valentine’s Day but has been shut down since
OxShag promised to send out matches on Valentine’s Day but has been shut down since
A dating website for Oxford University students has been accused of breaching student and staff privacy after revealing the name of everyone with a university email address.
“OxShag”, set up anonymously by a group of students, promised to help “overworked and undersexed” students find “bookworms with benefits, coursemates keeping it casual, nerds with no strings attached”.
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It claimed to be a matchmaking service for Oxford students, but students have said that it breached their privacy by making public the entire university directory.
When it launched yesterday, OxShag’s website featured a list of every person who holds an Oxford University email address, including students, academics, administrators, porters and more.
Students could sign up to OxShag at an initial cost of £3. Then they were able to
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Oxford University dating website for staff and students shut down after ‘huge data breach’
Anvee Bhutani | Emma Yeomans
Monday January 09 2023, 6.45pm, The Times
OxShag promised to send out matches on Valentine’s Day but has been shut down since
OxShag promised to send out matches on Valentine’s Day but has been shut down since
A dating website for Oxford University students has been accused of breaching student and staff privacy after revealing the name of everyone with a university email address.
“OxShag”, set up anonymously by a group of students, promised to help “overworked and undersexed” students find “bookworms with benefits, coursemates keeping it casual, nerds with no strings attached”.
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It claimed to be a matchmaking service for Oxford students, but students have said that it breached their privacy by making public the entire university directory.
When it launched yesterday, OxShag’s website featured a list of every person who holds an Oxford University email address, including students, academics, administrators, porters and more.
Students could sign up to OxShag at an initial cost of £3. Then they were able to
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