Real-life caseJuly 2025
Tea, dating review app for women, United States
In July 2025, in the United States, the Tea app saw a surge of interest: more than two million new access requests. It lets women share reviews of their dates.
Hackers then gained unauthorised access to its systems. They took 72,000 images, including around 13,000 selfies and ID photos submitted for account verification.
Yet the company claimed it deleted these selfies after verification. The affected accounts had been created before February 2024: the flaw involved old data, and it surfaced just as the app took off.
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