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Dating safety app Tea suspends messaging after hack

Messaging has been turned off on the women's dating safety app Tea, following a hack which has exposed thousands of members' images, posts and comments.

Adding: "In the meantime, we are working to identify any users whose personal information was involved and will be offering free identity protection services to those individuals." Tea lets women check whether potential partners are married or registered sex offenders as well as run reverse image searches to protect against "catfishing", where people use fake online identities. Some included images of women holding photo identification for verification purposes, which Tea's own privacy policy promises are "deleted immediately" after authentication.

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