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.
What are the chances of this being the main reason for the app’s existence?
Seeing as the word hack is doing a lot of heavy lifting. They didn’t bother to actually secure the data and then put it on the internet for anyone to access.