PrivacyHigh
Reported Hack of Tea Dating App Compromises Data from Purportedly AI-Supported Identity and Image Checks
- Occurred
- Jul 25, 2025
- Published
- Jul 26, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In July 2025, the Tea dating advice app, which purportedly uses AI-assisted tools for user verification and reverse image search, reportedly suffered a breach of a legacy storage system. Hackers allegedly accessed about 72,000 images, including selfies, photo IDs, and other content, which were purportedly circulated on 4chan. The incident reportedly exposed sensitive data of users who signed up before February 2024.
Developers
- Tea Dating Advice
Deployers
- Tea Dating Advice
Harmed parties
- Women and girls
- Women
- Tea app users
- Privacy
- Information integrity
- General public
- Tea Dating Advice users
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Data breach exposed 72,000 sensitive user images and IDs, constituting a significant privacy violation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8