Tea Dating App Suffers Major Data Breach

What Happened:

• Tea, a dating app where women anonymously review dates with men, was hacked.
  
• Hackers gained access to 72,000 images.
  
• Breach included:
  
  • 13,000 selfies & photo IDs (used for account verification)
    
  • 59,000 images from posts, comments, and DMs
    

Company Response:

• Confirmed “unauthorized access” to their systems.
  
• Hired third-party cybersecurity experts to investigate and secure systems.
  
• Claims:
  
  • No emails or phone numbers were exposed.
    
  • Only users who signed up before February 2024 were affected.
    

Breach First Reported By:

• 404 Media, on Friday.
  

About Tea App:

• A platform where verified women anonymously review men, Yelp-style.
  
• Marketed as a space where “women should never have to compromise their safety while dating.”
  
• Requires selfie verification (which Tea says are deleted after approval).
  

Has seen 2 million+ user requests to join in recent days.