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No notification via email or app for me as of yet... Seems like the sort of thing I should hear from them first, rather than the Baltimore Sun.
I use my Facebook as the login mechanism for MyFitnessPal, I wonder if that means my Facebook password has been stolen as well. Better change it, sigh...
MyFitnessPal never had your Facebook password, so there's no way for it to be stolen by a breach.
Perhaps this will also prompt them to start using HTTPS as well?
It's funny you would mention that because I also got annoyed by this and submitted a feature request for https. This is the response I received: Hello, Thanks for writing into us regarding https on MyFitnessPal. We have technical and organizational measures in place to protect your information. Specifically, we have a secure login process designed to protect your information as you access MyFitnessPal (i.e., login an…
Side note: MyFitnessPal the app is awful, but many of us still use it because it has the most extensive database of food products out there. Outside of that it has no merit and has felt abandoned in forever. Can someone recommend an actually superior alternative?
MyFitnessPal was horribly written app when I used it. The idea was good but God was it slow as hell when doing simple things.
Overall, the execution is good. I love the integration with iOS activity which means all my Strava and watch+activity and Wahoo cycling computer activities are tracked/integrated. I thought it would be a massive PITA and avoided tracking for years and years because of this, but I'm at something like 120 days straight and it's been a breeze.
> The affected data did not include government-issued identifiers, such as Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers, information that the app does not collect from users Well, I suppose it wouldn't, would it? Is this supposed to be impressive? How many more of these before serious legislation gets through?
I don’t think there’s anything odd about clarifying that certain data wasn’t compromised.
Official release https://content.myfitnesspal.com/security-information/notice...
I use my Facebook as the login mechanism for MyFitnessPal, I wonder if that means my Facebook password has been stolen as well. Better change it, sigh...