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Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan (www.404media.co)
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Users from 4chan claim to have discovered an exposed database hosted on Google’s mobile app development platform, Firebase, belonging to the newly popular women’s dating safety app Tea. Users say they are rifling through peoples’ personal data and selfies uploaded to the app, and then posting that data online, according to screenshots, 4chan posts, and code reviewed by 404 Media.

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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This was more like leaving all your valuables in a cardboard box on your front lawn. Anyone can just take it, if they care to look inside the complete unsecured box.

Someone just drove up and tossed the box in their truck. No lock involved.

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