Tea, which is a women’s safety dating app that reached the upper part of the free iOS App Store listing, suffered a major security violation last week. The company confirmed Friday that it “identified a system authorized access to our system”, which exposed thousands of users’ photos. And now we know that DMS was accessed during the violation.
The initial results of the tea from last weekend showed that the data violation shows that about 72 72,000 images: 13,000 photos of selfies and photo identification that people presented during account verification, and 59,000 images that were publicly visible in the app with posts, comments and direct messages.
The company said in a statement that the images were stored in the “legacy data system” that contained information more than two years ago. “At this time, there is no evidence that the current or additional user data is affected.”
Earlier on Friday, posts on Reddate and 404 media reported that the tea app was posted on users’ faces and ID on anonymous online message board 4chan. Consumers need to confirm their identity through selfies or IDs for tea, which is why driver licenses and photos of people’s faces are leaked.
And on Monday, a spokesperson of the tea confirmed to CNET that “recently found that some direct messages (DMS) had been accessed as part of the initial event.” Tea has also affected the system that affects the offline. Following a report on Monday, a 404 media report was reported on Monday that an independent security researcher discovered that it would be possible for hackers to access DMS among tea users, which affected messages sent to the tea app last week.
Tea said it has launched a thorough investigation to assess the scope and effects of the violation.
What is tea?
The basis of tea is to provide women with a place to report negative interactions while facing men in the dating pool, with the intention of protecting other women.
This app is currently sitting at the No. 2 location for free apps at Apple’s US App Store, only after Chat GPT is drawing international attention and giving rise to a debate about whether the app violates men’s privacy. After reports of data violations, it also works in a widespread debate around it to see if online identity and age verification is positive to Internet users.
In the privacy section on your website, Tea says: “Tea dating advice takes appropriate protective measures to damage your personal information, misuse, unauthorized access, reveal, change and destruction. However, please be aware that our efforts are unacceptable.”
