{"id":101709,"date":"2025-07-29T09:26:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/101709\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T09:26:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:26:18","slug":"tea-dating-app-breach-bigger-than-previously-thought-company-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/101709\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea dating app breach bigger than previously thought, company says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A previously disclosed hack affecting Tea, a women-only dating advice app, was more extensive than previously thought, the company said Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tea&#8217;s investigation of the incident found that app users&#8217; direct messages had been breached, along with some of their photos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Out of an abundance of caution, we have taken the affected system offline,&#8221; Tea said in a statement to CBS MoneyWatch.<\/p>\n<p>The app, which has become one of Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/the-tea-app-dating-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">most downloaded free apps<\/a>, was compromised in a cyberattack that exposed members&#8217; personal information, including selfies, Tea said Friday. The hackers accessed a data storage system containing information that members had uploaded prior to February 2024, the company said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An additional 59,000 images and direct messages were also accessed without authorization, according to Tea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tea lets women share information about their dates and run background checks on potential matches, among other things.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ted Miracco, CEO at mobile security maker Approov, urged users to exhibit caution in sharing personal information on widely downloaded apps..\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of people presume that if an app is available through Apple or Google, that it&#8217;s safe. That&#8217;s the first mistake consumers make,&#8221; he told CBS MoneyWatch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Miracco also said Tea lacked adequate security protections. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is basic cybersecurity and something the company should be held accountable for,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They rushed to market and promised consumers to create a safe site, and instead they exposed them.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/megan-cerullo\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Megan  Cerullo<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Megan Cerullo is a New York-based reporter for CBS MoneyWatch covering small business, workplace, health care, consumer spending and personal finance topics. She regularly appears on CBS News 24\/7 to discuss her reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A previously disclosed hack affecting Tea, a women-only dating advice app, was more extensive than previously thought, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":101710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-101709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114935810493968515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}