Tea Dating App Hacked: User IDs & Selfies Leaked Online!
Eiii Ghana! The popular women's dating safety app, Tea, dey face serious wahala. Reports dey circulate say hackers don breach their security, exposing personal data of thousands of users. Dis data include selfies and even photos of people's IDs!
Wetin Happen?
According to reports, some 4chan users claim say dem discover an exposed database on Google’s mobile app development platform, Firebase. Dis database belong to Tea app, wey recently gain popularity. Dem say dem dey go through people's personal data and selfies wey dem upload to the app, den dey post am online. E dey be like say some direct messages sef dey affected.
Tea app, wey claim say e get over 1.6 million users, be dey top of the App Store charts dis week. The app dey aim to provide a safe space for women to share information about men, for safety purposes. Dem dey verify say new users be women by asking dem to upload selfie.
Tea App Response
Tea don confirm say dem identify unauthorized access to one of their systems. Dem say approximately 72,000 images dey exposed, including 13,000 images of selfies and photo IDs wey people submit for account verification and 59,000 images wey dey publicly viewable for the app from posts, comments and direct messages. Tea dey investigate the matter to know the full extent of the breach.
Wetin Dis Mean?
Dis breach raise serious concerns about online security and privacy, especially when apps dey require people to share personal information like selfies and IDs. E dey important for companies to take security very seriously to protect user data. If you be Tea app user, make you check your account and change your password immediately. Stay safe out there!