Tea app data breach
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Cook partnered with an influencer and podcaster named Daniella Szetela, who later became its head of socials, to design and launch the platform. On Tea, women can vet potential suitors using technology like reverse-image searching, entering in their phone number to check for “possible marriages,” and background checks.
The Tea dating app, designed as a women-only safety platform, is facing intense backlash after a major data breach exposed 72,000 user images. The leak, reportedly shared on 4chan, includes verification selfies and government IDs.
Navigating dating apps as a woman can be more than just a difficult feat: it can be a dangerous one, too. That’s why one game-changing app, Tea, is trying to change things. But like clockwork, the toxic manosphere is threatening to destroy it.
The app has triggered controversy with its promise to help women avoid problematic men. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
A new, women-only app is turning heads, and sparking debate. Tea is now the number one lifestyle app on the App Store, with over a million women signing up in just one week. The draw? it's crowdsourced background checks for modern dating, as users post pictures of the men they’re seeing and ask for "tea"—meaning gossip, warnings and red flags.
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FOX 2 Detroit on MSNDetroit police debunk Tea App 'Tea Bag Killer' as deepfakeThe Tea app, a women-only app where they can post photos to get intel about men they’re dating, is once again stirring up controversy.