What Happened? An app designed to protect women just leaked tens of thousands of private images—including IDs and selfies. The fallout? A viral circus of outrage and mockery. But beneath the headlines is a bigger question: how do we respond when the tools we trust turn on us? The App and the Breach Tea quickly became the #1 dating app on the Apple Store. Its Android version struggled, with lower ratings and reviews. In late July 2025, hackers leaked nearly 60 GB of data—driver’s licenses, selfies, and user-submitted posts—onto forums like 4chan and file-sharing platforms like bittorrent. A Technical Breakdown (Made Simple) Tea claims the breach affected users who registered before February 2024. Hackers accessed unprotected files stored in Google Firebase—a common cloud development platform. Among the exposed data were government IDs, military licenses, and personal selfies. This is serious. Government IDs are considered Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and ...
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