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Hackers steal images from women's dating safety app that vets men

Thousands of women registered with Tea have had their images illegally accessed, the US firm says.

Tea lets women check whether potential partners are married or registered sex offenders as well as run reverse image searches to protect against "catfishing", where people use fake online identities. Earlier this year, an individual named Nikko D'Ambrosio took legal action against Facebook's owner Meta because of a number of statements made about him in a chat group called "Are We Dating the Same Guy". A dating safety app that allows women to do background checks on men and anonymously share "red flag" behaviour has been hacked, exposing thousands of members' images, posts and comments.

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