Tea, iOS App and data breach
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The Tea app has seen a surge in popularity recently. Founded in 2023, it allows women to exchange details about local men in the area. This
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Tea, an app where women share anonymous dating reviews, is going viral. It hit No. 1 on the US Apple App Store this week.
A dating advice app that lets women anonymously review their dates and compare notes has surged in popularity.
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?
A spokesperson for Tea confirmed the hack to ABC News Friday afternoon, noting it involved a database that stored around 13,000 images of selfies and photo identification submitted as users sought to verify their accounts, as well as nearly 60,000 images viewable for all app users.
Tea, an app where women can swap information about men, went viral this week, riding a flood of attention on social media. It soon rocketed to the No. 1 slot in the Apple App Store’s lifestyle category, and then, promptly, the app was hacked.
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The viral app Tea asks women to rate dates and share "red flags." It may make dating more of a minefield.