Two programs that claim to help users share information on malicious or undesirable partners, at the top of the Apple Apple Apple Stores in the United States.
But as it turns out, both programs suffer from serious security defects that expose thousands of personal data to the Internet.
Tea, which was loaded on the iPhone in July after the number one viral viral, allows women to anonymously examine the men they have dated, and are “safest place to pour tea”.
Last week, Teaonher joined a Copycat program that joined “Aid Men in Security” about “confirmed reports” about “red flags, safety concerns and positive experiences” at the top of the charts.
Since its release, Teaonher was the second free loading app at the US iPhone app store, while tea was third.
Both programs now, after technical hackers and journalists, found that they are pouring another type of tea: user ID documents, Salafists, and in some cases email and private messages.
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According to 404 Media, tea quickly closed the violation – but before many angry (and seemingly more man) internet users happily uploaded and shared the photos and documents from the women who used the program.
Meanwhile, a week after the discovery of Techcrunch’s Techcrunch violation, it seems that the issue has finally been resolved. But the company has made no public comments behind it, and no signs of informing users about their driver’s permits are revealed.
TEAONHER Company also seems to have a little web presence and questions of it Independent Only the email address available to its public led to an automated repayment.
“It seems that the type of people who write and launch a program in less than two weeks are not the type of people who need to implement safe coding practices and protect strong privacy for sensitive user data they want,” said Bluesky. “
These violations not only shine on disruption to modern familiarity – and people’s hunger for a solution – but also about naming and shameful ethics.
“Are men not allowed to protect their reputation and are also safe?”
Tea was first launched in 2023, apparently inspired by Facebook groups, “Are we with the same friend”, who serve as an unofficial (and sometimes controversial) network about shadow and abuse behavior.
The program reads: “The founder of Sean Cook launched tea after witnessing his mother’s horrific experience with online dating – not only the cat but unknowingly with men with criminal records.”
As well as user descriptions, this app allows users to make background checks, check criminal records, and search for sexual criminals near them. All posts are anonymous, but the program asks users to get a selfie to prove that they are women and in the past asked the photo ID to confirm his identity.
“I once happened to a rape once, and if there was a program like that, I think he will have much fewer victims,” wrote a referee at Apple’s App Store.
Another claimed that, within a day or two of the program, he found evidence that the man he was doing was actually married, led him to confront him and then left him.
Men who reached Teoonher have protested that they also needed to protect and be aware of unknown dates.
“Weeks, women laughed while men were talking about anonymous – right or not – some lie and draw online. But now that the tables are spinning, is suddenly uncomfortable?” One wrote
“Are men not allowed to protect their reputation and refuse to security? Are men solely invaders/liars/cheat?”
But other referees expressed concern about what they found in the program and described more posts to expose women’s sexual past to real safety issues. One said, “This is not accountability, this misconduct is affected by concern.”
“Under 10 minutes” to steal user ID cards
When violating tea data was revealed, the operators of the program said it had resolved it and only affected users who had joined it before February 2024. Then there was a second violation and influenced the newer material and forced tea to turn off its direct message performance.
However, the people behind Teoonher didn’t say anything. Its manufacturer Newville Media Corporation no website currently functioning, neither the company nor its CEO Xavier Lampkin responded to messages from it IndependentHuman
Teaonher’s security was especially calm. According to Techcrunch, it took less than ten minutes and only “trivial” effort to access driver’s licenses and email addresses is not required without password or credit.
This app requires all users to submit a state ID confirmation, but its app store page falsely claims not to collect any data from users
Apple’s rules say that the program makers must identify all the data collected on their app store page unless they meet these exceptional criteria.
Independent Has asked Apple comments.
