Red flags, leaked chats, and a final farewell
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The viral women-only dating safety app Tea, built to flag red flags, gets flagged itself - after leaking over 70,000 private images and chat logs. We are talking full-on selfies, ID docs, private DMs, and a dash of 4chan creepiness. Yikes.
Plus, Carole takes us down memory lane as she hangs up her co-host mic after 428 glorious episodes. Expect tea, tears, and Tom Lehrer.
All this is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.
Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.
Episode links:
- Update regarding cybersecurity incident - Tea.
- Hackers steal images from women's dating safety app that vets men - BBC News.
- A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating - 404 Media.
- American musical satirist Tom Lehrer dies at 97 - BBC News.
- Tom Lehrer website.
- Tom Lehrer sings The Elements, live in Copenhagen, 1967 - YouTube.
- Tom Lehrer sings “New Math” (animated) - YouTube.
- Carole’s Substack.
- Libby - Library app.
- Shokz UK.
- Two Birds Yoga - YouTube.
- Thermapen.
- BBC Sounds.
- Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)
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| 0:00.0 | They say the problem is that a legacy data storage system was compromised. |
| 0:12.7 | So we had this car in the car park and all the files were in the trunk. |
| 0:18.4 | I know, I know. |
| 0:19.9 | And it's like some guy got in there and stole all of them. |
| 0:24.2 | So. |
| 0:44.0 | Smashing Security, episode 428, red flags, leaked chats, and a final farewell with Carol Terrio and Graham Cluley. |
| 0:48.3 | Hello, hello and welcome to Smashing Security episode 428. My name's Graham Cluley. |
| 0:50.2 | And I'm Carol Terrio. |
| 0:56.8 | Now, Carol, I believe you've got some pretty big news for our listeners that you're going to be sharing later on in the show. |
| 1:00.8 | Yes, so you're going to have to listen the whole way through, dudes. |
| 1:04.5 | You're keeping me in suspense here. |
| 1:14.1 | But listen, before we kick off, why don't we thank this week's wonderful sponsors, Vanta, and OnePassword. |
| 1:16.9 | It's their support that help us give you this show for free. |
| 1:19.5 | Coming up in today's show, Graham, what do you got? |
| 1:21.3 | I'm going to be spilling the tea. |
| 1:26.7 | And I'm hitting the way back machine, Smashing Security Styley. |
| 1:29.9 | All this and much more coming up on this episode of Smashing Security. Now, Kroll, Kroll, have you ever heard of this phrase, spill in the tea? |
| 1:38.5 | Yes. It's something young people are talking about a lot these days, the tea and, well, I don't know. We're sharing gossip or something. Well, what is it? I don't know. I think we do have a teacup on our actual logo. We do. So. I think it's like dishing the gossip or something, isn't it? Or it's like, you know, let's. Oh, it's like, oh, let's get our tea and sit, you know, like get the popcorn. Like sit down, snuggle up because this is going to be delicious. I think so. Okay. I think so. And it's also this tea thing, as well as being a drink involving bold leaves in water. A very delicious one? Well, if you think so. I do. It's also an app, an app which has |
| 2:19.9 | proven really, really popular lately. There is this tea dating advice app. Have you heard of it? |
| 2:26.0 | No. Oh, it was first created back in 2023 by a software engineer called Sean Cook. |
| 2:32.9 | Well, I haven't been dating since I'm married. |
| 2:35.4 | Fair enough. |
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