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Tea App is a Sequel to The Dating Report

by Larry Chiang on July 27, 2025

Dating Reports

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Placing this here so people have a rundown:
1) Tea app hosts all non code assets (ui images, customer uploads, messages) in a public cloud bucket that anyone with a browser can access without a password
2) some guy finds it and posts it to 4chan yesterday morning
3) turns out there are thousands of womens drivers licenses in there
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4) within minutes,  the licenses are scanned (probably with a vision model) for addresses and map pins are created that link to the UUID of the images in the dataset, thereby doxxing thousands of women
The pins are not geos… they’re home addresses which is kind of worse
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The moral of the story is security is job one. Both the customers and the company did dumb things and now there’s going to be massive falloutimage4.jpeg

 
 
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genddy
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The drivers licenses leaked today from the tea app have been uploaded to a searchable map…. this may be the worst PII leak I’ve ever seen lol pic.x.com/qz2lzJreYa
 
7/25/25, 11:24 AM
 
 


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