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Lovense was told its sex toy app leaked users’ emails and didn’t fix it

Emma Roth

created: July 29, 2025, 10:07 p.m. | updated: July 30, 2025, 2:34 p.m.

Lovense, the maker of internet-connected sex toys, left user emails exposed for months — even after it became aware of the vulnerability. Lovense is behind a range of sex toys that users can connect to the internet and remotely control via its app, which came under fire for a “minor bug” in 2017 that recorded users’ sex sessions. As outlined in BobDaHacker’s post, the security researcher noticed something strange in the app’s API response when muting someone: it presented their email address. BobDaHacker even developed a script that they say can convert someone’s username into an email address in less than a second. However, the security researcher says Lovense didn’t immediately fix the issue.

3 weeks, 4 days ago: The Verge