{"id":323994,"date":"2025-08-07T01:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/323994\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T01:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T01:45:11","slug":"theres-a-tea-app-for-men-and-it-also-has-security-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/323994\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a Tea app for men, and it also has security problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Tea bills itself as a safety dating app for women, allowing users to anonymously share details about men they have met. A new app called TeaOnHer has emerged that attempts to flip the script, with men sharing information about women they date. And while Tea drew scrutiny last month after <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/cybersecurity\/data-breach-at-tea-reportedly-contains-images-and-dms-from-last-week-224823984.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:a data breach;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a data breach<\/a> revealed user information, including potentially identifying details such as phone numbers and personal anecdotes, the copycat app seems to be suffering from the same problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\"><a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/06\/a-rival-tea-app-for-men-is-leaking-its-users-personal-data-and-drivers-licenses\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TechCrunch;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">TechCrunch<\/a> discovered several security issues at TeaOnHer, which is currently second most popular lifestyle app on iOS. (Tea is the current leader despite the issues). The publication reported that it identified a security flaw that allowed anyone to access TeaOnHer user data, including usernames, email addresses, uploaded driver&#8217;s licenses and selfies. It also found a possible second issue where the email address and plaintext password for Xavier Lampkin, founder and CEO of the app&#8217;s developer, was left exposed. These credentials appear to offer access to TeaOnHer&#8217;s admin panel, which is another security risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">The full report at <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/06\/a-rival-tea-app-for-men-is-leaking-its-users-personal-data-and-drivers-licenses\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TechCrunch;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">TechCrunch<\/a> also raises concerns about the content shared on the app, which included spam posts with nude photos of women. It&#8217;s unclear how many of the roughly 53,000 users for TeaOnHer might be bots, or whether the app was ever meant to be used seriously; chunks of its description in the iOS store use near-identical language to Tea&#8217;s listing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tea bills itself as a safety dating app for women, allowing users to anonymously share details about men&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[104963,547,117041,9074,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-323994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-dating-app","9":"tag-mobile","10":"tag-security-flaw","11":"tag-tea","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114984958220446573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}