Tea Dating Advice allows women to vet their dates, using crowdsourced information and public records to evaluate men.

A data breach exposed photos and ID cards of women who signed up for a fast-growing app for women to share details of men they might date.

Tea, a provocative dating app designed to let women anonymously ask or warn each other about men they’d encountered, rocketed to the top spot on the U.S. Apple App Store this week. On Friday, the company behind the app confirmed it had been hacked: Thousands of images, including selfies, were leaked online.

A new app has become a viral sensation, as thousands of women use it to anonymously share reviews and warnings about men in the dating world.

Tea Dating Advice app rocketed to the top of Apple’s app store this week. It’s used for women to report issues with men. The point is helping keep women safe — but what about the legal issues around privacy and defamation?

A spokesperson for Tea confirmed the hack to ABC News Friday afternoon, noting it involved a database that stored around 13,000 images of selfies and photo identification submitted as users sought to verify their accounts, as well as nearly 60,000 images viewable for all app users.