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TEA, a dating application for women’s safety that has risen to the highest free iOS application store this week, was a major security breach topic. The company confirmed on Friday that it “set the approved access to one of our systems”, which was exposed to thousands of user photos.
According to the preliminary results of tea, the breach allowed reaching approximately 72,000 photos, dividing two groups: 13,000 pictures of personal photos and determining the images that people presented while checking the account and 59,000 photos that can be publicly displayed in the application from publications, comments and direct messages.
The company said in the statement that these pictures were in an “old data system” that included information for more than two years. “At this time, there is no evidence indicating that the current or additional user data was affected.”
Earlier on Friday, jobs on I responded and 404 media I mentioned that the faces of the tea application users and their identifiers were published on the anonymous internet messaging panel.
Tea requires users to check their identities with personal photos or identifiers, which is why the driver’s licenses and pictures of people are present in the data that have been leaked.
The tea hypothesis is to provide women with an space to report the negative interactions that they had while facing men in the dating group, and it is claimed to maintain the safe women of other women. The application reached the first place on the Apple App Store in Apple this week, as it drew international attention and launch a discussion on whether the application violates the privacy of men. If the breach reports turned into correct, you will also play in the continuous debate on a broader scale on whether it is Online identity and age verification are inherent security risks For Internet users.
In the privacy section on its website, Tea says: “Tea dating advice takes reasonable security measures to protect your personal information to prevent loss, abuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, change and destruction. Please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures can be hacked.”
TEA said it had launched a full investigation to assess the scope and effect of breach.