Tea App Data Breach Exposes User Photos and Messages
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· 2 sourcesThe Tea app, a women-only dating safety platform, suffered a data breach that exposed user photos and messages. Hacker News reported that the stolen data includes 1.1 million private messages and user verification details like selfies and government IDs, which were shared on hacking forums due to an unsecured Firebase storage bucket. The Onion noted that the leaked photos and messages were also posted on 4chan.
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Summary
The Tea app, which allows women to review men they've dated, recently suffered a data breach, resulting in leaked photos and messages on 4chan. The app is popular among women and uses photo verification to confirm the authenticity of reviews.
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Tea is extremely popular among women who wrote page-long notes in each other’s yearbooks in high school.
Photo verification confirms if a guy looks like he would do that.
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