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Tea App A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating (www.404media.co)
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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tea-app-leak-worsens-with-second-database-exposing-user-chats/

https://redlib.orangenet.cc/r/AskWomen/comments/1m9ydcn/what_iswas_the_tea_app_actually_like/

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Warning I'm going off memory and I'm too lazy to check this.

One of the articles on the first data leek mentioned it became big on the google play store shortly before the leek. It probably just wasn't around long enough for you to notice it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The article linked above asserts that it was a "legacy portion" of the database that got leaked, and that all the leaked data is from February 2024 and earlier. So this vulnerability apparently existed for at least 18 months. The timing of the leak coincides with a spike in popularity which brought wider attention down on it, and finally someone without the desire to implicitly trust it gave it a look.

    Which says to me that in the few years this app has existed, it was never scrutinized, not by anyone on the dev side and not by anyone on the user side. That's fascinating to me.

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