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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.
Last week, social network Tea experienced a data breach that exposed personal information for its users. The dating safety app for women said at the time that "there is no evidence to suggest that current or additional user data was affected.
No business wants to shout from the rooftops that it has been breached and that the data their users entrusted them with may be circulating on the internet. It’s bad for public relations and destroys trust. However, just because it feels bad doesn’t mean that the custodians of this data can just sweep a breach under the rug.
The Tea app data breach has grown into an even larger leak, with the stolen data now shared on hacking forums and a second database discovered that allegedly contains 1.1 million private messages exchanged between the app's members.
The viral app Tea, where women are invited to review the men in their lives, has just suffered a second data breach. According to the company, last week's breach included data that was two years old.
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