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The data breach at Tea, the viral app that allows women to post anonymous reviews of men, was bigger than initially reported and included private messages.Last week, the app acknowledged that it had experienced a data breach of about 72,000 images, including users' photos and driver's licenses.Now, a Tea spokesperson tells Business Insider that the company 'recently learned that some direct messages were accessed as part of the initial incident.
It's not clear if others had accessed this data with the intent to leak or otherwise use it.Rahjerdi said Tea 'did do a lot of really good security stuff on the code they wrote themselves,' describing the company's own API as 'very secure.'The problem was that Tea used Firebase to store its data, Rahjerdi said, adding that Tea 'didn't do the same work there.
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