“DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” the thread read before being deleted.

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.

  • Ricky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    the site got hacked and most of the admins were revealed to have .gov emails but everyone pretty much already expected that so nobody actually cared and it’s back to business as usual

    • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      most of the admins were revealed to have .gov emails

      I remember reading that this was something someone just made up and was spread a bunch, but wasn’t true at all.