Tea, 4Chan and app store
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Tea app sued after data breach exposes 72,000 images and messages; lawsuits cite broken promises and safety failures.
Around 72,000 selfies and ID photos were exposed after being stored in a "legacy data system" containing information from more than two years ago. Recent DMs might also have been accessed.
A vulnerability in the Tea app has been discovered that allowed users to download the personal information of everyone on the app.
Tea, an app where women can swap information about men, went viral this week, riding a flood of attention on social media. It soon rocketed to the No. 1 slot in the Apple App Store’s lifestyle category, and then, promptly, the app was hacked.