TeaOnHer, a rival Tea app for men, is leaking users' personal data and driver's licenses | TechCrunch
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The newly launched app, now trending on Apple's App Store, contains at least one major security flaw that exposes the private information of its users, including their uploaded selfies and government-issued IDs.

The backlash surrounding Tea escalated last week, after 404 Media reported 4chan users retaliated by discovering a publicly exposed database belonging to the app, which revealed over 72,000 images, including thousands of selfies and photo IDs submitted for account verification. A subsequent hack exposed more than 1 million private messages sent over the app, prompting the app to disable its messaging feature.

But like the app it sought to emulate, TeaOnHer contains security flaws of its own.

TechCrunch has found at least one security flaw that allows anyone access to data belonging to TeaOnHer app users, including their usernames and associated email addresses, as well as driver’s licenses and selfies that users uploaded to TeaOnHer. Images of these driver’s licenses are publicly accessible web addresses, allowing anyone with the links to access them using their web browser.

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  • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    37·
    3 days ago

    both of these apps sound disgusting holy shit I can’t believe online dating just gets worse and worse every year for everyone

    Capitalist society will literally just make app based surveillance state dating where everyone is snitching on everyone culminating in llike idk some sort of DateScore ™ and then go back to crying about made up social credit shit in China in the same breath

    • Kuori [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      the original sounds like it’s just a way to make sure you’re not getting involved with someone who’s going to abuse you.

      • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        15·
        3 days ago

        stated goal vs actual reality, it’s the Nextdoor app of dating and “it’s to protect us from the men” is just a convincing enough reason for you to ignore the possibility for abuses from it

        i am so fucking glad I met my partner when tinder was just “swipe left swipe right no limits on that shit” because it’s hard enough existing in a society and dealing with people in general, would love to date with a fucking public dossier built on me by petty aggrieved exes or literally just people making shit up for personal pleasure at another’s expense

        • Kuori [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          12·
          3 days ago

          fair point i guess. i have never dealt with any of the issues you bring up so it’s not something that crossed my mind. i’ve been the victim of abuse and violence from partners so my thoughts naturally trended to “oh i can see the utility here”.

          online dating seems like a nightmare i’m all too happy to miss out on.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    one time i was on a road trip, cutting through an infrequently traveled part of Pennsylvania. judging by the roads, that is. anyway, i had to get gas and take a whiz, so i get off at this off-brand place that had a sign for a toilets.

    i’m standing in this gross bathroom with that acrid stale urine stench, taking a much needed piss, when i realize the Sharpee writing in front of my face on the tile wall is a phone number followed by the line “call this number to get blown.”

    i had never heard of Tea or TeaOnHer until this article, but i feel like all of this is a lot more crass and disturbing than the anonymous scrawled phone number or name with disparaging statement on a bathroom wall ever was.

    “[someone’s name] SUX COX & DIX” seems almost quaint somehow compared to all this.