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An extremely popular women-only app which allows users to share personal information about men suffered a significant security breach, allowing the identities of thousands of its users to be leaked online.
As NBC News reported, hackers successfully breached the Tea app on Friday morning, which recently went viral for doxxing men in the name of promoting a safe space for dating. Tens of thousands of women’s selfies and photo IDs were leaked online.
Tea estimates that the hackers accessed about 72,000 images, including 13,000 verification photos and pictures of government IDs. These materials were then posted on 4chan.
The Gateway Pundit will not share photos or user IDs of the women as they are private figures.
Tea stated the breach only affected users who signed up before February 2024. The company also claimed no email addresses or phone numbers were accessed.
“Tea has engaged third-party cybersecurity experts and are working around the clock to secure its systems,” the company said in a statement.
“At this time, there is no evidence to suggest that additional user data was affected. Protecting tea users’ privacy and data is their highest priority.”
This news comes as Tea has reached the top of Apple’s free apps chart. It has over 4 million female users and a waiting list of approximately 900,000 new, prospective users.
Tea allows women to upload photos of men and search for them by name. Users can then leave comments trashing the men they’ve dated and share other private information about them.
Users can also access background check tools, phone number lookup, and reverse image search to research men.
Given Tea’s high popularity and advanced tools, it’s no wonder so many potentially innocent men are worried about having their reputations permanently tarnished.
Relationship experts have also warned that Tea could make dating harder.
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