The app, which recently went viral, found thousands of user selfies and photo identification were accessed in a data breach, along with about 59,000 images from posts, comments and direct messages within the app.

Its full name is Tea Dating Advice, and the central idea is a women-only app that gives those who are dating the ability to access background checks on men. This includes whether they have a criminal record (or if they're sex offenders), as well as reverse image searching to identify catfishing (assuming a false identity online).

The popular women-only dating safety app, Tea, that allows users to post anonymously about men they have dated has suffered a data breach - with over 72,000 user images exposed