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The Tea app was once described as the safest place online for single women to ‘spill tea’ or communicate anonymously about their dating experiences with men. On July 25, 2025, however, things reversed course when it was announced that the app’s back-end trove of personal data, including member selfies, driver’s licenses and private communications, had been hacked and exposed.  Hackers successfully engineered this breach through Tea’s unprotected Google…

A leading banking app was forced into a three-day shutdown after attackers exploited a small coding oversight that granted access to customer accounts. The flaw had quietly existed in the codebase for months, completely slipping past the development team. What made the incident even more frustrating was that a simple peer review could have identified…