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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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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 7 months ago

Instead, just prove you have a credit card by submitting the details. Also totally safe. Be sure to include the CVV, please!

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