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Elri
Dedicated September 2021

ww Website Hacked

Elri, on October 5, 2021 at 5:25 AM Posted in Account Support 0 3
Hello WW community and users, I am relatively new here so many of you haven’t seen me but I wanted to share my experience so others can protect themselves. I have since deleted all my personal information, pictures, and edited all my WW reviews due to someone unfortunately hacking our WW website. Here’s what happened.
So, all of a sudden two weeks ago I started receiving texts asking for sexual favors. They read something like, “hey (my name) my GF just left and she’s gone for 1 1/2 hours so come by soon, I’ll be waiting”. Some man even sent a picture of himself (face only thankfully) telling me “he’s waiting for me to come by for a quickie” and in another text someone said my husband is having an affair with my Wedding Venue director! This person named my husband me and my venue director all correctly. This was when I finally figured out it was coming from information collected on my WW website. I have gone in and deleted all personal info, but I do remember all my info being required to sign up initially including my phone number. I NEVER give out my phone number on any website but I distinctly remember it was required by WW. Having a strong desire to use WW to help plan my Wedding I went ahead and shared it assuming WW would protect my information.
I have just reported it to wedding wire and it is my hope they look into this further. In the meantime I’m very upset this has happened and I hope WW takes this very seriously and in the future works more diligently to protect its users. So everyone please protect your personal information on WW or you may find yourself in the same boat as I am now having to constantly block sexually driven texts among others stating that my husband is having an affair with people I have named in my reviews on this website. I am beginning to correlate spam e-mail to WW as well. I realize this post may not be seen as relevant content and may get me kicked off the site but it way too important not to share.

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Latest activity by Elri, on October 5, 2021 at 10:42 AM
  • Yasmine
    Master October 2020
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    Omg that's horrible 😳
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  • C
    Super July 2020
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    Yeah… this is a good lesson for people. Sorry it happened to you but hopefully people are more cautious moving forward. A site like WW isn’t investing tons into their cyber security…
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  • Elri
    Dedicated September 2021
    Elri ·
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    Yes, I’m glad I was able to delete all my personal info. At least WW allows you to be a user with your profile being incomplete. I feel they should not ask for a phone number to register.
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