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A data breach exposed photos and ID cards of women who signed up for a fast-growing app for women to share details of men they might date.
Hackers have breached the Tea app, which recently went viral as a place for women to safely talk about men, and tens of thousands of women’s selfies and photo IDs have now seemingly been leaked online.
Just days after thousands of user images and locations were leaked in an apparent hack of archived app data, women-only safety app Tea is weathering data exposure at an even larger scale than first reported.
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Tea, a popular dating safety app that helps women to dodge "red flags" from men while dating was hacked last week, leading to the unauthorized access of tens of thousands of images. In an official statement, the app's company announced that the data breach occurred on Friday, July 25, at about 6:44 a.m. PST.
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.