Tea, dating apps designed to be safe for women will be partially closed after a second breach

App – Designed to allow women to safely discuss men they date – Rockets hit the top of the US apple Last week’s App Store confirmed on Friday that thousands of registered users’ selfies and photo IDs were published in a digital security breaches.

404 Media first reported on this second security issue, citing independent security researchers who found hackers could access messages between users discussing abortion, fraud partners and phone numbers.

In a statement posted above Social Media AccountsTee said, “I recently learned that direct message (DM) was accessed as part of the first incident.”

“Due to the abundant attention, we took the affected systems offline,” the app said. “At this time, no evidence of access to other parts of the environment was found.”

The number of messages published by the vulnerability is currently unknown. Tea said “personal information is involved and we are working to identify users who will provide free identity protection services to those individuals.” The company said Tuesday it would share more information as it becomes available.

Due to the nature of the app (to allow women to argue anonymously about sensitive information about men they date), users are particularly vulnerable to malicious actors who try to expose their actual identity.

Mary Ann Miller, vice president of client experience at Identity Verification Company, said women who may have breached information should consider ensuring real-life security precautions, such as cameras, locks and “common-sense things you and I think are safe and secure in their homes.”

“The average citizen is put more of it there in the view of public places where their safety can be put at risk, and I think it’s time for us all to think more carefully about it,” she said. Meanwhile, businesses need to “find technologies that use other forms (and other) IDs to verify their identity” – they store and safely discard essential data, and after verification, they only discard unnecessary data.

Tea says about 72,000 images It was leaked online The first case includes 13,000 images of selfies or selfies that feature photo identifications submitted by users during account verification. Another 59,000 images that can be published on the app from posts, comments and direct messages were also accessible without permission, a spokesperson said last week.

According to the company, no email addresses or phone numbers are accessed, and violations only affect users who signed up before February 2024.

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File – September 16, 2017, People using smartphones in Chicago (AP photos, files)

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