Tea Dating Advice
Disclosed Jul 25, 20251 year ago4,244 affectedConfirmed
Tea app exposed 72,000 user images and over a million private messages
Tea said attackers accessed 72,000 images, including 13,000 selfies and photo IDs submitted for verification, from a legacy storage system; a second flaw exposed more than a million private direct messages, prompting it to disable DMs.
What is known
| People affected | 4,244 (as reported by the organization) |
|---|---|
| Disclosed | Jul 25, 2025 |
| Happened | Jul 24, 2025 |
| Attack | Exposed data |
| Data exposed | Government IDs, Biometrics, Messages, Location, Other |
| Sector | Tech · US |
| Status | Confirmed |
Sources
| Source | |
|---|---|
| California Attorney General breach notice: Tea Dating Adviceoag.ca.gov · Official notice | Official notice |
| Dating safety app Tea breached, exposing 72,000 user imagestechcrunch.com · News | News |
| Tea app disables DMs after second data breach exposed over a million private messagestechcrunch.com · News | News |
| Indiana Attorney General 2025 data breach report: Tea Dating Advicein.gov · Official notice | Official notice |
Notices filed
| Where | Filed | People |
|---|---|---|
| Researchtotal | Jul 25, 2025 | |
| California AGresidents of CA | Aug 28, 2025 | |
| Indiana AGresidents of IN | Aug 28, 2025 | 21 |
History of this record
- 2026-09-25 · records_basis: empty to organization · backfill source
- 2026-09-25 · records: empty to 4244 · backfill source
- 2026-09-25 · sector: other to tech · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · attack: unknown to misconfiguration · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · data_types: [] to ["government-id","biometrics","messages","location","other"] · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · disclosed: 2025-08-28 to 2025-07-25 · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · summary: empty to Tea said attackers accessed 72,000 images, including 13,000 selfies and photo IDs submitted for verification, from a legacy storage system; a second flaw exposed more than a million private direct messages, prompting it to disable DMs. · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · title: empty to Tea app exposed 72,000 user images and over a million private messages · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · added · backfill source
First seen 2026-09-25 (California AG), confirmed by California AG. Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.