Tea, a popular dating safety app that allows women to dodge "red flags” while dating, was hacked last week, leading to the unauthorized access of tens of thousands of images.

The women-only Tea app has reached one million downloads and topped the App Store lifestyle chart, gaining rapid popularity for its bold premise. Marketed as a dating safety tool, Tea allows women to post photos of men they’re dating to request “tea”, or gossip, about them from other users.

Roughly 72,000 images, including 13,000 user selfies submitted for account verification prior to February 2024, were accessed in the breach.