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being good-looking isn't easy even beautiful people have to worry about getting hacked I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update if you've ever been denied entry into the elite dating site beautifulpeople.com well it's time to be grateful that you are rejected from the shallow network because the personal details of more than 1 million members of beautiful people have been leaked online that's according to a report from Forbes the data breach you know what wait hold on to report this story right I need some appropriate background music yeah that's better the data breach appears to be from December and it's not just your typical user names and emails but also specific details on what these people look like exact addresses income education current employment mobile phone numbers even if there is no financial data in the leak all of this info is gold for identity thieves researchers work with Forbes and verified that a number of these accounts are real people the dating site released a statement saying that anyone who joined after july of last year was not affected beautifulpeople.com is no stranger to controversy the site often brags about denying access to people deemed too ugly to join and last year the site announced it dumped more than 3,000 members for gaining weight or looking old but before you laugh at the pain of the genetically blessed the Spotify users may also be dealing with some hacking drama it's been reported that hundreds of spotify account usernames emails and passwords have been leaked online that's according to TechCrunch TechCrunch says it reached out to some of these accounts and verified that they are real but Spotify denies it has been hacked and it told CNET that its user records are secure either way if you use Spotify it's a good idea to change your username and password and make sure that that password and email combo isn't also used to log in to other sites and as we continue on today's theme of horrible internet people twitter is doing more to help users report abuse if someone is harassing you on Twitter soon you can attach multiple tweets in a single abuse report so you don't have to waste time reporting every single tweet twitter has been criticized for not doing enough to combat abusive users so here's another baby step that's all for this tech news roundup you can head to cnet com for the latest from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey