TEA App Hackers are leaking online online including user selfies

“We are a third-party cybersecurity expert and work round the clock to ensure our systems,” says San Francisco-based Tea Dating Advice. said in a statement.

404 Media, this was previously Reported violationI said yes 4chan users Someone who discovered an exposed database from tea that “enables everyone to access the ingredients.”

Apps and Violation Highlights Difficult nature Looking for romance in the era of Social Media.

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Tea was meant to help women date safely

Sean Cook, founder of TEA, a software engineer who worked for a while Salesforce Shutterfly says on the app’s website that he founded the company in 2022 after witnessing the “terrifying” experiences of his own mother. Cook said he included dating a man without his knowledge with his criminal history and “catfish” – fooled by a man Uses incorrect identity.

Tea has put its own marketplace as a safe way for women to meet on apps that anonymously veterinarian men to meet. crater or Bumble– Ensure that the man is the person he says, not a criminal, he is not married yet or is in a relationship. “It’s like people have their own little Yelp page,” said Aaron Minc, whose Cleveland company MINC Law specializes in cases that include online honour and harassment.

In an Apple Store review, one woman wrote that she used a tea search to investigate the man she began talking to and discovered “more than 20 red flags containing serious allegations such as assault or recording the woman without consent.” She said she had cut off communication. “If I didn’t know, I can’t imagine how things would have disappeared,” she wrote.

A surge in social media attention over the past week has pushed tea to Apple’s No. 1 spot in the US App Store As of July 24th, the survey company Sensor Tower. Over the seven days from July 17th to 23rd, tea downloads rose 525% compared to the previous week. Tea said Instagram Please post what it has reached 4 million users.

Tea has been criticized for invading men’s privacy

A female columnist from the Times of London newspaper signed into the app will be called TEA on Thursday “Man Sharming Site” And then, “This is simply vigilante justice, completely dependent on the harshness of anonymous women. If there’s tea in the scene, how many people will date women again?”

“We’ve received hundreds of calls over the past few weeks. It exploded,” Attorney Minc said. “People are upset. They are named. They are shamed.”

In 1996, Congress passed the law. Protect your website and app from liability For what users post. However, users could be sued for spreading “false” information, MINC said.

However, in May Illinois federal judge abandoned “Are we dating the same man?” a privacy infringement lawsuit filed by a man criticised by a woman on a Facebook chat group, reported Bloomberg Act.

The state’s privacy laws could provide another means of taking legal action against those who post your photos or other personal information in a harmful way, Minc said.

The violation revealed thousands of selfies and photo IDs

In a statement, TEA reported that around 72,000 images have been leaked online, including 13,000 images submitted by users during account verification and 13,000 images with photo identification. Another 59,000 images that can be published on the app from posts, comments and direct messages were also accessed. According to the company’s statement.

The company said its email addresses or phone numbers were not published and the violations only affect users who signed up by February 2024.

Users said there is no need to change their passwords or delete their accounts. “All data is reserved.”

Lawyer Mink said he was not surprised to see tea being targeted. “These sites will be attacked,” he said. “They make enemies. They put their targets on themselves where people want to chase after them.”