Women’s Dating Service Sued for Data Breach Including Images (1)

A Nevada woman has filed a class-action lawsuit against Tea Dating Advice Inc., alleging it failed to properly secure users’ sensitive personal information that was compromised in a pair of late July data breaches.

Tea advertises itself as a purveyor of dating safety tools for women, allowing them to run background and criminal history checks on potential partners and identify potential catfishes—that is, a person who sets up a dating profile with false or misleading information. The complaint, filed by a Jane Doe, alleges that the first breach, on July 25, allowed an unauthorized third party to take approximately 72,000 ...