Tea, App Store and data breach
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The Tea app has seen a surge in popularity recently. Founded in 2023, it allows women to exchange details about local men in the area. This
Tea, a dating discussion app that recently suffered a high-profile cybersecurity breach, announced late Monday that some direct messages were also accessed in the incident.
A spokesperson for Tea confirmed the hack to ABC News Friday afternoon, noting it involved a database that stored around 13,000 images of selfies and photo identification submitted as users sought to verify their accounts, as well as nearly 60,000 images viewable for all app users.
An app that allows woman to run background checks on the men they meet online has suffered a data breach. The hack has exposed thousands of user-submitted photos posted to the Tea app, it was confirmed on Friday (July 25). The app is used by millions of women in the US and had even featured as the Apple app store's top free app this week.