The Real Red Flag Was the App's Backend: A Look at the Tea App Data Disaster
As the founder of a social investing app where trust and user privacy are our lifeblood, I’ve been following the Tea app breach story closely — and let’s just say, it’s a textbook case in what not to do when handling user data.
In case you missed it: Tea, the viral women-only app where users “review” their dates, suffered a major breach exposing over 72,000 private images — including selfies and ID cards meant for identity verification. Yep, government IDs. Just hanging out in a leaky, poorly secured bucket like it was 2006.
