Congress report details scam scale on Match Group dating apps

On October 15, 2026, Hacker News covered a US Congress Joint Economic Committee investigation into Match Group's Tinder and Hinge. As of the third quarter of 2025, nearly 1.5 million scammers or other malicious accounts on the two apps had matched with at least one user, and nearly 500,000 of those accounts exchanged contact details with someone. The disclosure uses match and contact-exchange counts to show the scale of scammer and malicious account activity on the two dating apps.

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