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A dating advice app that lets women anonymously review their dates and compare notes has surged in popularity.
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Primetimer on MSNIs the Tea app legal and who is the founder? Entire data breach controversy explained
The application found itself atop Apple’s App Store earlier this week after hordes of new users signed up to the app.
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Tea, an app for women to safely talk about men they date, has been breached, user IDs exposed
Tea, an app designed to let women safely discuss men they date has been breached, with thousands of selfies and photo IDs of users exposed, the company confirmed on Friday.
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.
404 Media first reported on the data breach, writing that users from 4chan “claim to have discovered an exposed [Tea] database hosted on Google’s mobile app development platform, Firebase.” The notorious site’s resident trolls bragged that they were parsing personal data and selfies from the app’s internal databases.
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The rise of snitch apps
The viral app Tea asks women to rate dates and share "red flags." It may make dating more of a minefield.