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Attackers posted the stolen details on a popular data leak site. What's incredibly popular, just as polarizing and not, as it turns out, a comforting drink? The U. According to research firm Sensor Tower , the app has been downloaded two million times in the last month. Marketed as "helping women date safe" and described as " basically Yelp for men ," Tea is currently the No. App Store — but it's also the topic of heated debate about safety and privacy, been called " a man-shaming app " targeted by men's rights groups and now it's been hacked. San Francisco-based Tea Dating Advice said in a statement posted to its website on July 25 that some 72, images — including 13, selfies and photo IDs used for account verification — were leaked online. Then on Tuesday, Tea posted that it had suspended direct messaging after becoming aware that some messages had been accessed during the data breach, too. Ashley Madison data breach
A popular women's dating advice app suffered a major data breach, revealing users' drivers' licenses, messages and other sensitive information. Who hacked Ashley Madison? In , one of the biggest hacking scandals of the internet age exposed millions of extramarital affairs — but the people behind the hack were never found. Now, a new Netflix docuseries is trying to shed some light on exactly what happened. Let's go back a little. Back in , Canadian businessman Darren Morgenstern decided to found a dating website exclusively for married people looking to cheat on their partners. Have an affair. By , the website had amassed 36 million users. The True Story of
In July , Ashley Madison-a dating site catering to individuals seeking extramarital affairs-suffered a catastrophic data breach that reverberated across the digital privacy landscape. In the early s, dating site Ashley Madison, which helped married lovers cheat on their spouses, was at its peak - with over 37 million unfaithful users creating profiles in the hopes of hooking up with someone other than their partner. However, it all came to a screeching halt in when a group who called themselves The Impact Team took matters into their own hands and claimed responsibility for hacking the affair site - causing every name that was signed up to be leaked. The website, which was launched in , promoted itself as an anonymous place for spouses looking to be unfaithful offering the chance to connect those wanting to cheat on their respective partners together. But when the Impact Team came around, they demanded that the site be taken down - and, when it wasn't, the hackers released all the 37 million records of data from site onto the web for anyone to see. After a trove of data purporting to belong to the users was shared on the dark web, both police and Ashley Madison executives scrambled to find the tech wizards behind the Impact Team. In the early s, dating site Ashley Madison, which helped married lovers cheat on their spouses, was at its peak. Tea encouraged its users
S. A bombshell documentary has landed on Netflix , delving into the infamous data breach that laid bare millions of secret affairs. The extramarital dating app Ashley Madison was thrust into the spotlight when hackers in leaked users' private information. The platform lured countless individuals seeking to be unfaithful with its provocative slogan: "Life is short. Have an affair. Ashley Madison boasted of top-notch security due to its confidential nature, yet the hack revealed severe vulnerabilities. 