Nothing is going well for tea, the American application that allows women to leave an opinion about the men they know. In less than a week, the platform was the victim of two security defects. So that two collective appeals against the application were presented, according to Business Insider. In total, two complaints were filed.
In fact, last week, the application acknowledged having suffered a violation of the data related to approximately 72,000 images, in particular the user’s photos and driver’s licenses. A few days later, an investigator discovered that more than 1.1 million private messages had also been leaked, sometimes they contain telephone numbers or intimate information to identify users.
“Mass and avoidable cyber attacks”
However, these attacks could have been avoided according to complaints, which accuse the application of “negligence.” One of the plaintiffs, Griselda Reyes, seeks to hold tea “responsible for the damages it has caused and will continue to cause”, both for her and for “thousands of people in a similar situation during these massive and avoidable cyber attacks.”
“I don’t think this organization has intended to violate the rights of users,” said Scott Cole, a company’s lawyer with Insider Business. “I think they were simply negligent. They have suddenly turned viral, and the number of users exploded.” The complaint, as well as tea breeding, all its data, which eliminates private information and damage.
The other complaint is anonymous. The plaintiff explains that she joined tea for a simple reason: she wanted to warn other women about a man, accused of being a sexual attacker.
A case that is distinguished by its “cruelty”
During the first data leak, the photos of the user’s identity cards were placed online in the 4Chan forum, Hub for American misinformation and the extreme right, as well as in X, ex-twitter. The two platforms are also attacked by the complaint.
“At a time when data violations have become common, this case is distinguished by the particular cruelty of its impact: a security application that has endangered its users, an anonymity platform that revealed identities and a tool destined to protect women who, on the contrary, delivered their personal information to those who wanted to damage them,” insists the complaint.
TEA, which claims more than 4.6 million Internet users, reached the first place in the classification of the application store last week. It allows anonymous to evaluate men present in other meetings applications with red or green flags. The application also offers paid features to verify the history of a profile.
Source: BFM TV
