Women’s ‘red Flag’ App Tea Is Privacy Nightmare

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

Tea was founded by package developer Sean Cook, who said he was inspired to create an anonymous susurration web aft witnessing his ain mother's "terrifying" making love experiences pinch men. It was al …

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