The women-focused Tea Dating Advice app suffered a data breach leading to the leak of thousands of personal images belonging to its users, the company said in a July 26 Instagram post.
“At 6:44 a.m. PST on 7/25, we identified unauthorized access to our systems and immediately launched a full investigation,” the company said in an official statement.
“A legacy data storage system was compromised, resulting in unauthorized access to a dataset from prior to February 2024.
“This dataset includes approximately 72,000 images, including approximately 13,000 selfies and photo identification submitted by users during account verification, and approximately 59,000 images publicly viewable in the app from posts, comments, and direct messages.”…