Tea, a popular dating safety app that allows women to dodge "red flags” while dating, was hacked last week, leading to the unauthorized access of tens of thousands of images.

One of the world’s most popular dating apps has suffered a data breach exposing selfie images of 13,000 users, it has emerged. Tea, which describes itself as offering “dating safety for women,” said the incident occurred on Friday morning, local time.

Tea was launched in 2023, and has recently become the most downloaded free app in Apple’s U.S. App Store, after gaining recent popularity on social media. According to researcher Sensor Tower, downloads of the Tea app through the first 23 days of July were up 320% compared to the same period in June.