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Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan (www.404media.co)
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Users from 4chan claim to have discovered an exposed database hosted on Google’s mobile app development platform, Firebase, belonging to the newly popular women’s dating safety app Tea. Users say they are rifling through peoples’ personal data and selfies uploaded to the app, and then posting that data online, according to screenshots, 4chan posts, and code reviewed by 404 Media.

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[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Not legally, no they didn't. Tea did. Under current laws, they have no obligation to report this or to not tell other people about it.

Seems the issue is you don't understand how laws work.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

No need to be condescending. The current laws about hacking in America are actually much more strict than they should be and can be used to punish people who actually do just stumble on things they shouldn't have access to as well as people who are ethical whistle blowers. So no, it seems you don't "how laws work."

But I don't believe those laws should be used to go after people who make mistakes or report problems in good faith. These folks didn't make an innocent mistake and weren't acting in good faith.