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The acquaintance safety app that allows women to check men and anonymously share the “red flag” behavior, was hacked, exposing thousands of images, messages and comments of thousands of members.
Dating tips with tea, an app based on the US, with 1.6 million users, said that “unauthorized access” up to 72,000 images presented by women.
Some included images of women who carry out photo identification for verification purposes that promise their own TEA privacy policy after checking authenticity.
Tea said the violation affected the members who signed up to February 2024. He added that he “acted quickly” and “worked with some of the most trusted cybersecurity experts.”
The app has recently survived the growth of popularity – as well as criticism from those who claim it is an anti -man.
Tea allows women to check whether potential partners in marriage or registered sex offenders, as well as launched a return image search to protect against “cats” where people use fake online identity.
But one of the most controversial aspects of tea is that it allows women to share information about the men they met to “avoid red flags”, as well as to highlight those who have the qualities of the “green flag”.
The company said the violated photos “in no way could be related to tea reports.”
The firm blocks screenshots so that the messages are not divided by the app.
But on Friday, he also admitted that an additional 59,000 images from the app showing messages, comments and direct messages more than two years ago.
Tea said, “We take every step to protect this community – now and always.”
BBC News contacted tea for comments.
The campaign was created in November 2022 by Sean Cook, a software engineer who said he was inspired to create tea after testifying to the experience of dating his mother.
In May, he said Medium: “I was shocked how easy it was for catfish, scammers and criminals to use women in dating supplements and how little traditional dating applications to protect users.”
However, some men – and women – dispute these types of groups who claim that they are at risk of invading privacy and slander.
Earlier this year, a person nicknamed Nikko d’ambrosio launched legal actions against the owner of Facebook Meta from a number of applications made about him in the Chap group, entitled “We meet with one guy”.
The lawsuit was thrown by a federal judge in Illinois.
