Woman sues Match.com for $10 million

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213. I had a dating website accidentally expose my email address (and my real name).

I saw that their messages came to my email address, not to the box on the website.

Of course I also got their real names and email addresses. It wouldn't have been too difficult for them to get my home address from that, knowing where I lived and what my name is.

That could have been potentially dangerous right there and, because it was a security failure of some kind, might have been actionable if something had happened.

I do think there are situations where the dating site could be held liable.

Also, people rely on lawsuits when they are hurt in some way (product liability, that sort of thing, or something like this) because we have no true safety net in this country if you are badly injured and your life altered permanently.

I'm not saying Match is liable here. I don't know that. Let's face it, people basically suck and you should never trust strangers. Never, ever. Makes it kind of hard to go from being strangers to being friends or whatever, but it's a sad reality.