Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare

An app designed to assistance women spot the "red flags" of men they day has incidentally enactment its users astatine risk. 404 Media reported that Tea was hacked by 4chan users past week, resulting successful the selfies and driver's licenses of its mostly women users being posted to 4chan. An autarkic researcher for 404 Media has since discovered that messages betwixt users discussing infidelity, abortion, and idiosyncratic telephone numbers are besides susceptible to hackers.

Tea was founded by bundle developer Sean Cook, who said helium was inspired to make an anonymous susurration web aft witnessing his ain mother's "terrifying" dating experiences with men. It was al …

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