This month, an application called Tea Created Internet. Thousands of women gathered on it, anonymously reversing their life of meetings and the men who have given them! In one week, the provocative digital space exceeded first place in the Apple Apple App Store. Friday, the company behind the application confirmed that it had been hacked. The pirat has accessed thousands of images, including selfies.

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The tea application publishes a message on viral hacking

Jutely shenanigans have become viral when women began to overthrow tea on the application. Women began to discuss the application on other social platforms, which led to an influx of people who apply to join the online community. With locked up men and the fear of being on the looming application, tea has drawn critical attention. Then rumors of hacking started! The company abandoned a statement, clarifying what happened on Friday.

Tea said that around 72,000 images had been disclosed online, including 13,000 selfies. Some selfies have an identification of photos that users submitted when checking the application account. According to a tea spokesperson, pirates also accessed 59,000 other visible images in the application from publications, comments and direct messages. The company said that no phone or telephone digital address was accessible. In addition, violation only affects users who registered before February 2024.

“Tea has started third -party cybersecurity experts and works 24 hours a day to secure its systems,” said the company. “Currently, there is no evidence suggesting that additional user data has been affected. Protection of confidentiality and user data of 1 is their highest priority. ”

Tea also said that users did not need to change their passwords or delete their accounts, as they have secured “all data”.

As mentioned, the TEA application presents itself as a safe way for women of anonymously veterinarian with whom they could connect to dating applications such as Tinder or Bumble. The goal was to make sure your date is “Safety, not a catfish, and not in a relationship.”

“Tea is an essential application, helping women avoid red flags before the first meeting with dating advice and showing them who is really behind the profile of the person with whom they come out,” reads the description of the Tea App Store.

Tea declared in an Instagram publication this week that she had reached four million users, and received and examined 2.5 million requests To join.

How did data leak occur?

Also, 404 media reported the breach and says 4chan users I discovered an exposed database which “allowed anyone to access the equipment” from tea. The application and the breach highlight the heavy nature of the search for romance in the era of social media.

“During the reporting of this story, an URL that the user 4Chan published included a large list of specific attachments associated with the TEA application. 404 Media saw this list of files. During the last hour, this page was locked and now returns a” “” “authorization” “, 404 Media reported on Friday.

Another declaration of the TEA application on Saturday, July 26, said that the company had led experts in the application of the law and external cybersecurity to help the investigation.

What to know about the tea application

Tea founder Sean Cook Previously, he revealed that he had founded the company in 2022. He was a software engineer who previously worked at Salesforce and Shutterfly. The “terrifying” experiences of his mother, who understood the men without knowing it with judicial lockers and the fact of being tickled, influenced him.

In an Apple Store review, a woman wrote that she had used a tea search to investigate a man to whom she had started to talk. She ended up discovering “more than 20 red flags”, including serious allegations such as assaults and recording women without their consent. She said she had cut the communication. “I can’t imagine how things could have happened if I didn’t know”, She wrote.

According to Sensor Tower, an increase in social media attention during last week pushed tea in the first place of the Apple American App Store in July 24. Within seven days from July 17 to 23, tea downloads increased by 525% compared to the previous week.

Did tea invade the intimacy of men? Maybe.

On Thursday, a columnist for the Journal Times of London described the tea as a “human shame site” after signing the application. She also complained that “it is simply a vigilant justice, entirely dependent on the scruples of anonymous women”. According to APshe wrote, “With tea at the scene, what man would never dare to take out a woman again?”

SODid the tea application violate men’s privacy, and is it against the law? In 1996, Congress adopted legislation protecting websites and applications against the responsibility of the content published by their users. Always, AARON MINCA lawyer specializing in defamation and harassment, said Users can be continued to disseminate “false and defamatory” information.

And these cases are not guaranteed victories. For example, in May, a federal judge of Illinois threw an invasion of privilege invasion. According to Bloomberg Law, a man prosecuted after the women criticized him in the Facebook chat group “let’s go out with the same guy”.

In addition, states’ privacy laws are also a concern and can lead to prosecution against anyone who publishes a photograph or personal information from another person in a harmful manner. Lawyer Minc said he was not surprised to see targeted tea.

“These sites are attacked,” said Minc. “They create enemies. They put targets where people want to continue them. ”

Barbara ORTUTAY of Associated Press and the company writer Paul Wiseman contributed to this report via AP Newsroom.