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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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[–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If by "personal information" you mean sharing their experiences with certain people ... Yeah I guess.

They weren't sharing addresses and social security numbers or drivers license numbers or other things that would lead to identity theft.

How can you not have sympathy for these women getting doxxed because they wanted to help create a safer space for one another and to help each other out? That's wild.

This is far from turnabout, this is abuse.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No, we mean "sharing what they claim is their experience and details of such"

    Maybe they weren't sharing addresses and SSN's (though what's stopping them from doing so), but like anything online it's certainly not hard to make up, spin, or highly exaggerate a story to the detriment of the subject, but without them knowing about it.

    So yeah, even if Sally Smith claims that "**Billy Jones of 125 South Street is a big loser who has undisclosed herpes, which who knows how he got it with that small dick of his", maybe the truth is that Billy refused to pay for an expensive meal on a first date it some other thing entirely.

    This isn't turnabout (as the leak wasn't intentional), and not abuse either, but it may be a bit karmic.

    ** Names and story entirely made up for example purposes

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