Tea encouraged its users to spill. Then the app’s data got leaked

In this photo illustration, the Tea app logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. The dating advice app suffered a major data leak last month. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

The Tea app describes itself as “the safest place to spill tea” about potential online matches, allowing its subscribers to conduct background and criminal record checks, reverse image searches, and communicate anonymously among one another about men posted on the app.

But the revelation last month of personal data being hacked and leaked online threatened the personal safety of the women on the popular

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