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A controversial dating app, Tea, with which women can share information about men anonymously, has confirmed a significant data injury. Thousands of pictures, including selfies, were published online after the app, which had recently exceeded the US Apple App Store, was hacked.
The tea dating counseling in San Francisco said: “We have commissioned third-party cyber security experts and work around the clock to secure our systems.” The incident underlines the tough nature of the search for romance in the age of social media.
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The founder of Tea, Sean Cook, a software engineer who had previously worked on Salesforce and Shutterfly, said on the app of the app that he founded the company in 2022 after seeing the “terrifying” experience of his own mother.
The tea markets itself as a safe way for women to check anonymously that they meet dating apps like Tinder or Bumble. It was compared with the outcry of the dating.
In a review of an Apple Store, a woman wrote that she used a tea search to examine a man with whom she had started to speak and discovered “over 20 red flags, including serious allegations such as bodily harm and recording of women without her consent”. She said she can cut the communication. “
According to the Sensor Tower, a research company, an increase in social media’s attention last week on July 24th pushed the tea to 1st place on the US Apple. In the seven days from July 17th to 23rd, tea downloads rose by 525% compared to the week earlier. Tea said in an Instagram post that he had reached 4 million users.
A Times columnist, who signed in the app on Thursday, called Tea a “man-shame site” and complained that this is simply a citizen instrument and is completely dependent on the scruples of anonymous women. Which man would ever meet with a woman with tea in the scene? ”
It is unclear what legal recourse a damaged man might have if he feels that he was defamed or his privacy against tea or a similar social media platform. In May, a federal judge in Illinois threw an unrestricted lawsuit of a man who had been criticized by women in the Facebook chat group.
