The 28-year-old CEO of Bumble travels with a bodyguard after staff details were posted on a neo-Nazi website
Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd travels with a bodyguard and employs full-time security at the company's offices, according to an interview in The Times.
This is after a cyber attack on Bumble last summer, when a neo-Nazi website published an article with photos and phone numbers of Bumble staff, encouraging people to harass them.
The FBI stepped in to take down the website.
Bumble founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd now travels with a bodyguard and employs a full-time security team at the dating app following a neo-Nazi cyber attack last year, The Times reported.
In an interview with the newspaper, Wolfe Herd said that after neo-Nazis targeted Bumble's staff by posting their photos and phone numbers, the FBI stepped in.
"We’re a feminist company so we came under attack," Wolfe Herd told the Times. "Faces and phone numbers were put on a neo-Nazi website that the FBI subsequently took down. The post was a call to action to bring down the feminists of Bumble."
The cyber attack took place two weeks before the white-supremacist Charlottesville rally in August 2017. Bumble addressed it in a press statement released shortly afterwards.
Wolfe Herd told The Times there's a lot of anger against feminist entities like Bumble. "Misogyny is a very dangerous thing and there are a lot of people that still believe in it," she said. "It’s a very alive misogynistic moment in America right now."
The 28-year-old also said she suffers from anxiety. She continued: "I haven’t gone through the testing, but I should. It’s anxiety about everything. I worry about awful things happening to people I love. They say phones are a strong catalyst for making anxiety worse, so I have this interesting balance — how do I make sure I’m on top of everything, but also preserve my mental health?"
She would not be drawn on a potential sale of Bumble, which is majority owned by Badoo billionaire Andrey Andreev. There were reports last year that it was in talks to sell to Tinder owner Match, with a valuation of $1 billion.
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