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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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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I 100% agree that it isn't relevant to the doxxing. I dont think the doxxing is warranted at all from either side. Most of what I saw about the app is just from various social media users as well as the Google PlayStore reviews. Personally I find it hard to believe the app wasn't made with the purpose to dox people just based on the name alone. The ads make it seem like a safespace for women and if that's all it was meant to be then it for sure had a very unfortunate name.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    What does the name have to do with doxing? I know "tea" is slang for "gossip", but gossip ain't doxing.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    A group of people with the intention of privately sharing details of people in order to track their behavior is definitely going to lead to doxxing. Maybe I'm getting the wrong idea, but it sounds like they are sharing the names of people they went on dates with. I assume that would include the city or town the date occurred which would infer where abouts they live. Given enough "reviews" of a single person I'm sure there would be sufficient info to call it doxxing.

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