"Tea" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION]
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Oh yes the famous state of Colorado UK.
UK driving licences do not look like that, they don't have US states on them (major clue), are green, and if the person in the photo actually looks like a living human and not corpse, it gets sent back as unacceptable.
Actually UK licenses are pink. Provisionals are green
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I can't wait till I read a similar article about porn sites; especially one where the doxxed individuals are politicians.
I mean, we kinda already ended up there with the Ashley Madison hack in 2015. Problems with that site aside, I feel like it's kinda the blueprint for everything wrong with companies that retain personally identifable info on folks. If a company collects details like your driver's license, it's not a question of if it gets out but when. There's just no way to collect that sort of data and truly keep it safe.
But, it seems like we've kinda forgotten how to learn lessons in the modern day, so I'm sure this was an isolated issue and we'll never see it's like again.
(/s on that last part, just in case that wasn't blindingly obvious.)
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Remember the UK new safety law.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/reddit-rolls-out-age-verification-in-the-uk-to-comply-with-new-rules/
Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan
“DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” the thread read before being deleted.
404 Media (www.404media.co)
What use is American personal info to a German anon?
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I understand the reasoning for the public intent of the app and would generally support it within reason cause society right now amirite.. but its not so subtle real world application has now leaked a DB of catty women for whom the majority ALSO show massive red flags. This isn't a sexist men vs women critique, if there was an app for men to rate women and dox them I'd feel the same way. Love it when shitty people bamboozle themselves.
I mean it's even in the app name that it's not about protecting women and keeping them safe, it's literally about "spilling the tea" aka gossip. It's pretty gross and can be used for nonconsenual sharing of images and even slander too since there's no way to know if what someone is writing on there about someone is true or not.
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What's the alternative to warning strangers about predators?
What about people who don't use this app, do they not deserve to be protected, do they deserve to suffer because they didn't use this app?
Let's be real, this app is about gossip, it's not about protecting women and keeping them safe, it's literally in the name it's about "spilling the tea" aka gossip.
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The drivers license thing is likely due to a law passed by the UK a few days ago requires all mature content to be behind an age check. And not a "Are you 18: Yes / No", more like "we will check using ID and photos of you".
It's the most hated piece of legislation in a while, with already 100 000 petition votes in 3 days to repeal it.
Almost 250k petition votes now, 150k more votes in the past day alone.
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What's the alternative to warning strangers about predators?
I hear that, I just don't think this is the way to go about it. Digital reputation system that lives on some corporate dataset is just ripe for terrible problems. It's terrible for everyone's privacy when we normalize this shit.
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Alright, but none of that was really relevant to this comment. Why are you soapboxing on it?
You sort of started it with your comment. I don't want to be around people that feel the need to document everything on a website. Please inform those around you so they can decide to opt out.
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Remember the UK new safety law.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/reddit-rolls-out-age-verification-in-the-uk-to-comply-with-new-rules/
Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan
“DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” the thread read before being deleted.
404 Media (www.404media.co)
It was literally just a gossip site.
Glad it got what it deserved, even if 4channers suck.
The male version of this got shut down too. -
Yes, trying to warn other women about a man you dated who abused you or gave off weird vibes is definitely the same as getting your nudes or porn video of yourself leaked against your will onto the public internet for everyone to see
Oh hey look, the straw man is waving at you
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What use is American personal info to a German anon?
Congrats, dumbest take you could have on this.
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Remember the UK new safety law.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/reddit-rolls-out-age-verification-in-the-uk-to-comply-with-new-rules/
Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan
“DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” the thread read before being deleted.
404 Media (www.404media.co)
A public S3 bucket? Whoever used the app should start a class action lawsuit, this is beyond misconduct.
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A public S3 bucket? Whoever used the app should start a class action lawsuit, this is beyond misconduct.
Imagine the other gaping security holes in this thing if storing all the data on a public s3 bucket flew under the radar until after release.
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It was literally just a gossip site.
Glad it got what it deserved, even if 4channers suck.
The male version of this got shut down too.Just curious, what was the male version?
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Women aren't routinely abusing men with dating apps so yeah I would be weirded out lmao
Women aren't routinely abusing men with dating apps
Lmao
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also fucking AirBnB
They generally don´t need it though
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It was literally just a gossip site.
Glad it got what it deserved, even if 4channers suck.
The male version of this got shut down too.Saying 4channers suck is very similar to saying Lemmy users suck. Depends on board and instance respectively.
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It was literally just a gossip site.
Glad it got what it deserved, even if 4channers suck.
The male version of this got shut down too.Gossip sites suck, but nobody deserves to get their data leaked.
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Gossip sites suck, but nobody deserves to get their data leaked.
How do you think anyone who had their face and details posted by a vindictive ex feels?
Yeah nobody does, but I feel less devestated when it was already happening from them against people.
