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Posted:
9:40 AM PDT · July 26, 2025

Tea, an app that allows women to station anonymous comments astir men they’ve supposedly dated, announced Friday that it has suffered a information breach, pinch hackers gaining entree to 72,000 images.
That number includes 13,000 selfies and photograph IDs submitted for relationship verification, arsenic good arsenic 59,000 images from posts, comments, and nonstop messages, nan institution said. Tea besides said that nary emails aliases telephone numbers were exposed, and that only users who signed up earlier February 2024 were affected.
“We person engaged third-party cybersecurity experts and are moving astir nan timepiece to unafraid our systems,” nan institution said. “At this time, we person implemented further information measures and person fixed nan information issue.”
404 Media reported that 4chan users claimed to beryllium sharing individual information and selfies from Tea aft discovering an exposed database.
The hack comes aft nan Tea app seemed to achieve viral popularity this week. As of Saturday morning, it was still number 1 successful nan free app rankings successful Apple’s App Store.
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