Overview

• Tea Dating Advice confirmed two breaches in its legacy storage system that exposed about 72,000 private images and over a million recent messages
• Only users who joined before the February 2024 cutoff were affected and no email addresses or phone numbers were compromised
• Tea has enlisted third-party cybersecurity firms and law enforcement to secure its infrastructure and assess the full scope of the incident
• Independent researchers released in-depth reports yesterday revealing how unencrypted, publicly accessible databases allowed unauthorized harvesting of selfies, IDs and private chats
• The breach highlights tensions between regulatory pushes for app openness and the need for robust data protection safeguards