The CMB app – which sells itself as the one “for serious daters” – first went down on 27 August, blocking users from their budding romances. The app claims to have more than 10 million sign-ups worldwide, including many across Asia. It has now been down for three days with the firm’s engineers saying they are working on a “system outage” and frustrated users are venting their concern online. It’s led to speculation of a ransomware attack, data compromises as well as jokes about employee sabotage. Many are also genuinely upset about missed connections, expiring messages and concerns their matches – known on the app as “bagels” would think they were being stand-offish. Is dating a must to be users frustrated ?

