Tea data breach: what happened and what to do
Last reviewed August 7, 2025 · 5 records on file · sources listed below
Dating safety app Tea suffered a breach compromising selfies, photo identification, and images from posts, comments, and direct messages within the app.
If you have an account with Tea, assume the exposed details are circulating. The practical risk today is rarely the leak itself — it is the calls and messages that use those details to sound legitimate.
What we have on file
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Personal Information · Hacking
Tea, a dating safety app, announced a data breach where hackers gained access to 72,000 user images, including 13,000 selfies and photo IDs.
Personal Information · Unknown
Tea, a dating app, experienced a data breach due to content that had not yet been migrated to its updated secure platform, resulting in unauthorized exposure of personal information.
Personal Information · Hacking
The Tea dating app was hacked, resulting in the leak of 72,000 images, including users' selfies. The breach only affects users who signed up before February 2024, and no email addresses or phone numbers were exposed.
Personal Information · Unknown
Tea, a dating discussion app, suffered a cybersecurity breach where some direct messages were accessed.
What to do
- Change the password anywhere you reused itThe exposure matters most when the same password protects your email, because email is how everything else gets reset.
- Treat every call and text about this breach as a scam until proven otherwiseNo company will ask you for a one-time code, a PIN or a password. Hang up and call the number printed on your card.
- Read your statements for the next three monthsCard fraud usually starts with a small test charge. Catching that one is what stops the large one.
- Give your email account a password nothing else usesIt is the account that can reset all the others, so it is the one worth protecting first.
Questions people ask
Was my data in the Tea breach?
Having an account alone does not confirm exposure. The reliable check is whether your email address appears in the leaked datasets in circulation — that takes seconds and does not require your password.
Is it too late to do anything?
No. Leaked personal details do not expire, and neither does the defence: a unique password on your email, and a fraud alert on your credit file, still work years later.
Will Tea contact me?
They may. But scammers contact people too, using exactly these breach details to sound convincing. Never act on an inbound call or text — call back on a number you already had.
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