The tea application disables DMS after violating the second open data more than a million private messages

Last week, tea witnessed the application of dating safety a Back to the dataExposing 72,000 sensitive photos containing personal photos and images of the account to check the account, as well as pictures of publications and messages. According to what was reported, personal data was shared by users on 4chan.

As I mentioned now before 404 mediaA second safety problem revealed more user data, which prompted the application to disable the direct correspondence feature on Tuesday afternoon.

Earlier this week, 404 Media has received advice from independent security researcher Kasra Rahjerdi, including messages between users who share phone numbers and discuss abortions and un sincere partners.

The application – which was created to provide a platform for women to exchange information about men who dated – has released statement Last week, with regard to the initial breach, it was said that the matter only affected the users who participated before February 2024. Rahjerdi results revealed messages from early 2023 until last week, with more than 1.1 million messages.

Apparently in response to the report, tea Declare On Instagram, it temporarily disabled the direct messaging feature. The company stated that “from an abundance of caution, we took the affected system in a non -communication mode,” probably as a preventive measure after the second security accident.

TEA, which was launched in 2023, has since occupied widespread attention, is currently ranked second in the free application scheme at the Apple App Store. According to Tower Tower estimates, the application includes about 2 million active users per month as of this month.

This story has been updated to include the application advertisement on Instagram and Sensor Tower estimates.