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Tea App Data Breach: What You Need To Know & Do NOW! #shorts
Aug 1, 2025
Dating app Tea faces a massive data breach! Leaked: 72,000+ images, IDs, and private messages. Is your info at risk? Find out if the app's safety promise failed its users. Experts share immediate steps to protect yourself. "A nationwide security nightmare?" #databreach #datingapps #privacy #cybersecurity #news #techfail
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Download tea. You can literally look up
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so many things.
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It was marketed as an app for women to
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talk safely and anonymously about the
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men they're dating.
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Just download the tea app, type in his
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name, and you can literally see if he
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has red flags or green flags.
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Now, it's a nationwide security
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nightmare.
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What are we doing about the T app leak?
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Like, this is not okay.
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The T app announcing a massive data
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breach to their systems last week.
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Roughly 72,000 images, including 13,000
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verification selfies and images of
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government IDs have been leaked online.
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The company adding today some private
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direct messages were also accessed in
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the breach and they have since disabled
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that function.
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Unfortunately, the T app was not secured
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the way that it was supposed to. They
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didn't encrypt or protect that data.
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T says, quote, "During our early stages
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of development, some legacy content was
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not migrated into our new fortified
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system. an unauthorized actor accessed
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our identifier link where data was
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stored before February 24th, 2024.
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Launched in 2023, the app was advertised
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as a safe space for women to find out
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more information about the men they're
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dating by comparing notes with other
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women and offering self-described dating
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safety tools like background checks, sex
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offender and criminal record searches,
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and catfish image searches.
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All you have to do is drop in his name
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into Te's criminal record search. The
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tea community had more than 4 million
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users, exploding in recent weeks,
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surging to the number one spot in the
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Apple App Store. But now, troves of
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personal information of some of those
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users available for anyone to see
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online. A Google map that allegedly
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shows the addresses of users as well as
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a website called Teespill that allows
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anyone to rate the leaked selfie of tea
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app users. I was racking my brain,
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feeling anxiety about, oh my gosh, like
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my information might be leaked out
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there.
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This Tik Tocker, instead of using her
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real name, prefers to go by her
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username, person with job, has used the
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Ta app for about 6 months.
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It was really to just quickly search who
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I was matching with on dating apps.
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But now she's concerned her information
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could be out there, too.
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There's a lot of trust that has been
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lost through this whole experience. T
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says the breach only affects users who
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signed up before February 2024. And they
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have quote engaged third-party cyber
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security experts and are working around
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the clock to secure their systems. When
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a data breach like this happens, it
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really is scary for the users because
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you can't just go and change your
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address. That's where you live and
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there's a physical security risk there.
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The T app now desperately trying to
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contain this sensitive spill of
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information. Now, if you are watching
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and you are among those impacted. We
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asked our expert who told us there are
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three things that you should do
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immediately. The first, freeze your
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credit. The second, lock down any
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information from data brokerage sites.
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You can do that individually. You can
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request your information to be taken
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down or you can pay a data breach
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removal tool to do it for you. And
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lastly, make sure you are using long,
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random, unique passwords that you are
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changing frequently. But of course, Tom,
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make sure you keep track of all those
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passwords. We thank you for watching and
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