Making women’s number one dating app on the App Store suffers instant data breach
Tea, an app that makes women “evaluate” and “comment” men’s lives, has been in a buzzing attitude lately, has shot to the top of the App Store and enjoyed several recent posts in major media. Unfortunately, the app has now disclosed data breaches involving self-proposed user images. A report said some data has been shared on 4Chan, a return to the Incel-Ridd-Ridder Internet, known for helping to generate Qanon conspiracy theory.
404 media first reported the data breach, writing that 4chan’s user “claimed to have discovered an exposed one [Tea] The database is hosted on Google’s mobile application development platform Firebase. ”The infamous website residents trolls boast that they are resolving personal data and selfies from the app’s internal database.
404 attempts to verify claims filed on the website. “While reporting this story, the URL posted by 4chan users contains a large list of specific attachments related to the tea app,” the media wrote. While the file can be viewed initially, the page now has an error, with the 404 saying “verified that the tea does contain the same storage bucket URL that 4chan claims to be related to the exposure.” Gizmodo cannot verify the report independently.
On Friday, TEA confirmed to Gizmodo that a data breach occurred. “We can confirm that on Friday, July 25, at 6:44 am, the TEA identified unauthorized access to our system and immediately conducted a comprehensive investigation to assess scope and impact,” a PR representative shared. They said that part of the selfies involved in the app were for verification purposes, and they said:
Preliminary findings suggest that the incident involved an old data storage system containing information from two years ago. About 72,000 images were accessed without authorization, including approximately 13,000 images submitted during selfies and account verification, and photo identification and 59,000 images submitted in the app that are publicly viewable in the app – no permission to view publicly from posts, comments, and direct messages.
A spokesman told Gizmodo that the company did not see evidence that “current or other user data is affected.” Ironically, the TEA also said that the information in question was “originally stored in accordance with enforcement requirements related to cyberbullying.” Gizmodo further asked about the so-called role of 4Chan in the event. We will update this post when we receive a reply.
Tea voiceover itself is a “women’s safety app” and allows its users to anonymously post pictures and the real name of the man they dated, and raise criticism and doubts. Although on the surface, the purpose of giving women a review date is the goal of reviewing dates, The Washington Post notes that tea “does not limit feedback to safety issues” and that criticisms are often directed at the appearance of men or the way a particular relationship ends. It can be said that this will make it an ideal goal for the Internet’s most dissatisfied and misogynistic tribes.
More importantly, whenever you share personal information with the app, you simply ask to share that information with the rest of the world. The Internet (especially the application industry) is a very unsafe place, dominated by male egos and burnt coders.
