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Tea, an app for women to safely talk about men they date, has been breached, user IDs exposed
- Tea, an app for women to anonymously discuss men they date, announced on July 26, 2025, a data breach exposing 72,000 images including selfies and photo IDs.
- The breach resulted from unauthorized access to an outdated data storage system holding information older than two years, impacting users who registered before February 2024.
- The breached data comprises 13,000 selfies submitted for identity verification and an additional 59,000 images found within user-generated content such as posts, comments, and private messages, while email addresses and phone numbers remained secure.
- Tea stated it has engaged trusted third-party cybersecurity experts, acted quickly to secure systems, and affirmed there is no evidence of more recent data being leaked.
- Despite the breach and scrutiny over its user safety, the app remains popular, reaching number one in Apple’s free app rankings and accumulating four million users.
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Women's dating app Tea reports 72,000 images stolen in security breach
Tea, an app that lets women anonymously comment and review dates with men, said it has suffered a data breach, with hackers gaining access to 72,000 user images.A Tea spokesperson confirmed the hack to Reuters on Saturday, saying they had detected "unauthorized access to our systems" and about 72,000 images
The Tea app was intended to help women date safely. Then it got hacked.
Tea, a provocative dating app designed to let women anonymously ask or warn each other about men they’d encountered, rocketed to the top spot on the U.S. Apple App Store this week. On Friday, the company behind the app confirmed it had been hacked: Thousands of images, including selfies, were leaked online. “We have engaged third-party cybersecurity experts and are working around the clock to secure our systems,” San Francisco-based Tea Dating A…
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