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, an app that allows women to post anonymous comments about men they’ve supposedly dated, announced Friday that it has suffered a data breach, with hackers gaining access to 72,000 images.

One of the world’s most popular dating apps has suffered a data breach exposing selfie images of 13,000 users, it has emerged. Tea, which describes itself as offering “dating safety for women,” said the incident occurred on Friday morning, local time.