Final week, the relationship security app Tea skilled a knowledge breach, exposing 72,000 delicate photographs containing selfies and photograph IDs for account verification, in addition to photographs from posts and messages. The non-public knowledge was reportedly shared by customers on 4chan.
As now reported by 404 Media, who obtained a tip from impartial safety researcher Kasra Rahjerdi, a second safety problem uncovered extra consumer knowledge, together with messages between customers sharing cellphone numbers, and discussing abortions and untrue companions.
The app — created to offer a platform for ladies to change details about males they’ve dated — launched a assertion final week relating to the preliminary breach, stating that it solely affected customers who signed up earlier than February 2024. Rahjerdi’s findings revealed messages from early 2023 till as much as final week, with greater than 1.1 million messages recorded.
Tea, which launched in 2023 however since gained extensive consideration at present ranks within the second-place spot within the high free app charts of Apple’s App Retailer.