Tea app data breach
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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.
The Tea app was intended to help women date safely. Then it got hacked.
Tea Dating Advice allows women to vet their dates, using crowdsourced information and public records to evaluate men.
A new app has become a viral sensation, as thousands of women use it to anonymously share reviews and warnings about men in the dating world.
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.