404 Media first reported on the data breach, writing that users from 4chan “claim to have discovered an exposed [Tea] database hosted on Google’s mobile app development platform, Firebase.” The notorious site’s resident trolls bragged that they were parsing personal data and selfies from the app’s internal databases.

Tea confirmed the breach to Barron’s. In a statement, the company said that it identified unauthorized access to one of its systems and immediately launched an investigation to assess the impact. Preliminary findings indicate that the incident involved a legacy data storage system containing information from over two years ago,

A dating safety app designed to protect women has exposed the very users it promised to shield. Tea, which recently topped Apple's App Store charts, suffered a data breach that leaked 13,000 verification photos and government IDs of its female users,