After a hack, messaging on women’s dating safety app tea has been discontinued, exposing images, posts and comments of thousands of members.
In a new statement, the company said: “As part of our ongoing investigation into the cyber security incident that includes the tea app, we have recently learned that some direct messages (DMs) were accessed as part of the initial event.”
Hack of the app, which allows women to examine backgrounds on men and shared an anonymous “red flag” behavior, it was discovered In the weekend,
It is a US-based female-caval app with 1.6 million users, which has been asked to expect more information as well as updates.
“Our team is fully engaged in strengthening the safety of the tea app, and we are eager to share more about those promotion,” the company said.
Join: “Meanwhile, we are working to identify any user, whose personal information was involved and will provide free identity security services to those individuals.”
Tea allows women to check whether potential partners are married or registered reverse image search along with registered sexual criminals to protect from “catfishing”, where people use fake online identity.
One of the most controversial aspects of tea is that it allows women to share information about men that they have done “to avoid red flag”, but also highlighted those with “green flag” properties.
It was previously revealed that hackers had accessed 72,000 images presented by women.
Some include images of women with photo identity for verification purposes, which are “immediately removed” after authentication of their privacy policy of tea.
Chai said that Breach affected members had signed up before February 2024.
The app has recently experienced an increase in popularity – as well as criticism of some people that claim that it is opposed to men.
