Tea, a women's dating safety app that recently surged to the top of the free iOS App Store listings, suffered a major security breach last week. The company confirmed Friday that it "identified authorized access to one of our systems" that exposed thousands of user images. And now we know that DMs were accessed during the breach, too.

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The app has never been more popular than in the immediate aftermath of a brand catastrophe. On July 25, the company behind the app Tea Dating Advice admitted it had been hit with a major data breach—which sounds like a disaster for an app trying to make a name for itself as a safe digital space for women to privately discuss,

A popular women's dating advice app suffered a major data breach, revealing users' drivers' licenses, messages and other sensitive information. The hack put a spotlight on the flaws in "whisper networks.

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).

Tea, a dating safety app which allows women to anonymously give men red or green "flags," says it had more than 70,000 photos stolen in a data breach.

Last week, social network Tea experienced a data breach that exposed personal information for its users. The dating safety app for women said at the time that "there is no evidence to suggest that current or additional user data was affected.

The data breach at Tea, the viral app that allows women to share "red flags" or feedback about men they have dated, was bigger than initially reported.

The popular women's only dating advice app, which skyrocketed to the top of the app download charts last week, experienced a data breach Friday.