Tea, a women-only dating safety app marketed as a 'Yelp for men', suffered massive data breaches exposing 72,000+ sensitive images including driver's licenses and over one million private messages. The breaches occurred due to an unprotected Firebase storage bucket accessible to anyone with basic technical skills, creating a database of personal information that could be exploited by the very people the app was designed to protect against.

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