A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating

A second major security issue at Tea, a women's dating safety app, exposed far more user data than the first breach, with an independent security researcher finding that hackers could access private messages about abortions, cheating partners, and phone numbers. Tea had said the initial incident involved a legacy storage system with data from over two years ago, but the researcher's findings, which 404 Media verified, show the separate database contains messages up to last week and that all users could be sent a push notification. 404 Media found it trivial to identify some users' real-world identities from their messages, which included social media handles, phone numbers, and names.