Tea app data breach
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Hackers have breached the Tea app, which recently went viral as a place for women to safely talk about men, and tens of thousands of women’s selfies and photo IDs have now seemingly been leaked online.
The Tea app was intended to help women date safely. Then it got hacked.
Tea Dating Advice allows women to vet their dates, using crowdsourced information and public records to evaluate men.
Tea, a dating discussion app that recently suffered a high-profile cybersecurity breach, announced late Monday that some direct messages were also accessed in the incident
The Tea app is a women-only dating app that acts as a safety platform. Its users share anonymous reviews about men they've dated or are dating and have conversations about them. In order to start a membership, users must submit a selfie and a government issued ID for verification.
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Tea Dating Advice app rocketed to the top of Apple’s app store this week. It’s used for women to report issues with men. The point is helping keep women safe — but what about the legal issues around privacy and defamation?
The Tea app data breach has grown into an even larger leak, with the stolen data now shared on hacking forums and a second database discovered that allegedly contains 1.1 million private messages exchanged between the app's members.
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CNET on MSNTea App Breach Exposed 72,000 Selfies and ID PhotosThe images were being stored in a "legacy data system" containing information from more than two years ago, the company says.
A dating advice app that lets women anonymously review their dates and compare notes has surged in popularity.
A data breach exposed photos and ID cards of women who signed up for a fast-growing app for women to share details of men they might date.
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