The app is meant to provide women an anonymous space to find information about the men they are interested in speaking with through dating apps. The app uses reverse image searches to catch fake profiles, phone number lookups to check for secret relationships, and background checks to look for possible criminal records.

The Tea app data breach has grown into an even larger leak, with the stolen data now shared on hacking forums and a second database discovered that allegedly contains 1.1 million private messages exchanged between the app's members.

The Tea App was founded by tech entrepreneur Sean Cook in 2023 (yes, a man!). According to the app’s website, Cook had the idea for the app after watching his mom struggle with online dating, experiencing both catfishing from men and unwittingly chatting with others who had criminal records.

Viral dating advice app Tea experienced a data breach on Friday. It's been at the top of the US Apple App Store this week.

The Tea app was intended to help women date safely. Then it got hacked.

Its full name is Tea Dating Advice, and the central idea is a women-only app that gives those who are dating the ability to access background checks on men. This includes whether they have a criminal record (or if they're sex offenders), as well as reverse image searching to identify catfishing (assuming a false identity online).

The women's dating safety app Tea is facing backlash after a major data breach. Over 72,000 user photos were exposed, raising serious questions about user priva