Tea, Women and Apple App Store
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An app called Tea that lets women anonymously review guys has soared to No. 1 in the App Store
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.
404 Media first reported on the data breach, writing that users from 4chan “claim to have discovered an exposed [Tea] database hosted on Google’s mobile app development platform, Firebase.” The notorious site’s resident trolls bragged that they were parsing personal data and selfies from the app’s internal databases.
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.