Tea app, which went viral for its concept of a ‘safe place’ for women to talk about men, faced a massive data breach

A vulnerability in the Tea app has been discovered that allowed users to download the personal information of everyone on the app.

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?

Tea, an app where women can swap information about men, went viral this week, riding a flood of attention on social media. It soon rocketed to the No. 1 slot in the Apple App Store’s lifestyle category, and then, promptly, the app was hacked.