There is a Tea app for males, and it additionally ...

Tea payments itself as a security courting app for girls, permitting customers to anonymously share particulars about males they’ve met. A brand new app known as TeaOnHer has emerged that makes an attempt to flip the script, with males sharing details about girls they date. And whereas Tea drew scrutiny final month after revealed person data, together with probably figuring out particulars corresponding to cellphone numbers and private anecdotes, the copycat app appears to be affected by the identical drawback.

found a number of safety points at TeaOnHer, which is at present second hottest life-style app on iOS. (Tea is the present chief regardless of the problems). The publication reported that it recognized a safety flaw that allowed anybody to entry TeaOnHer person knowledge, together with usernames, electronic mail addresses, uploaded driver’s licenses and selfies. It additionally discovered a attainable second situation the place the e-mail deal with and plaintext password for Xavier Lampkin, founder and CEO of the app’s developer, was left uncovered. These credentials seem to supply entry to TeaOnHer’s admin panel, which is one other safety threat.

The total report at additionally raises considerations concerning the content material shared on the app, which included spam posts with nude photographs of girls. It is unclear how lots of the roughly 53,000 customers for TeaOnHer could be bots, or whether or not the app was ever meant for use significantly; chunks of its description within the iOS retailer use near-identical language to Tea’s itemizing.