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

Source: https://www.404media.co/a-second-tea-breach-reveals-users-dms-about-abortions-and-cheating
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/A-Second-Tea-Breach-Reveals-Users-DMs-About-Abortions-and-Cheating?index=0x68888c0709d5d5b970b865102ac9105f128bd35f9c754fc38c9f646e8abab2757e0f18ea
Submitted by naomiii.eth on 2025-07-29 UTC, 1 upvote, 0 comments

## Summary

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.

## Article

A second, major security issue with women’s dating safety app Tea has exposed much more user data than the first breach we first reported last week, with an independent security researcher now finding it was possible for hackers to access messages between users discussing abortions, cheating partners, and phone numbers they sent to one another. Despite Tea’s initial statement that “the incident involved a legacy data storage system containing information from over two years ago,” the second issue impacting a separate database is much more recent, affecting messages up until last week, according to the researcher’s findings that 404 Media verified. The researcher said they also found the ability to send a push notification to all of Tea’s users.

It’s hard to overstate how sensitive this data is and how it could put Tea’s users at risk if it fell into the wrong hands. When signing up, Tea encourages users to choose an anonymous screenname, but it was trivial for 404 Media to find the real world identities of some users given the nature of their messages, which Tea has led them to believe were private. Users could be easily found via their social media handles, phone numbers, and real names that they shared in these chats. These conversations also frequently make damning accusations against people who are also named in the private messages and in some cases are easy to identify.

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