Weeks after hackers leaked person information from the Tea app, a platform that lets girls fee ex-partners, a brand new male model of the app, TeaOnHer, skilled the identical situation.

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What are the Tea and TeaOnHer apps?

The authentic Tea app launched in 2023, marketed as a girls’s security software to warn others about dangerous experiences with males they dated. However, it didn’t go viral till July 2025, because it skyrocketed to the highest three most downloaded apps on the Apple App Store.

The app options nameless boards, criminal background checks, cellphone quantity lookups, and a reverse picture search software to establish catfishers. To be part of, girls should add a selfie and a photograph of their ID to confirm their gender.

In response to the women-focused app, a male model of the Tea app, TeaOnHer, launched. It shortly joined Tea on the high of the app charts. The app additionally permits males to anonymously share data on the ladies they date.

However, many customers of the Tea app stated it will possibly’t be in comparison with TeaOnHer.

TikToker Nina (@ninadoesthemost) identified that men and women had been utilizing their respective apps for various causes.

@ninadoesthemost

My predictions on the Tea On Her” app. I forgot to say this: I believe the app will truly divide males. All it takes is just a few days of steady use of the app, and plenty of males will expertise for themselves how scary and unhinged they are often. By September, they may turn into exhausted of hearing detrimental suggestions on girls from different males, and admittedly, they gained’t care about being accepted by one another on the app…At least, no more than they care about scratching that little itch…

♬ authentic sound – Ninadoesthemost

“What [women] are using the app for is to expose people who be doing [domestic violence] and maybe got a restraining order. Or maybe he’s got seven kids and don’t show up for any of them,” she defined. “[Men] are on there for a different reason. They’re green flagging which girls are easy or good in bed.”

Were Tea and TeaOnHer hacked?

Both apps skilled main information breaches.

In July, hackers accessed and leaked non-public messages between Tea customers and their ID pictures. The information was shortly downloaded and unfold on the web imageboard, 4chan, in response to 404 Media.

On TikTookay, many ladies lamented that their data was shared within the breach.

“I should’ve minded my business. Should’ve left that tea app aloneee,” one commented underneath a video of the leaked photos.

“I joined to see what the hype was all about, I should have left it alone,” one other wrote.

“My pic is so ugly. I just wanted to see what the app is abt,” a 3rd stated.

@im.kristiinn #greenscreen I ought to’ve identified 😂😂😂😂 #fypシ #fyp #viralvideo #teaappexposed #teaapp #tea ♬ authentic sound – im.kristiinn

Just final week, TeaOnHer skilled the identical. According to TechCrunch, the male model of the app started leaking driver’s licenses of its customers, too. Reporters had been in a position to entry the delicate information in minutes, because the admin aspect of the app allowed unauthenticated customers to entry it.

An X customers explains how hackers obtained entry, writing, “TeaOnHer, the app meant to combat the infamous “TeaApp”, can also be a large dumpster hearth. It has been compromised. THE DEVELOPER MADE HIS PASSWORD TO THE ADMIN PANEL “Password1!”. IT WAS STORED IN PLAIN TEXT ON THE LANDING PAGE. WHAT THE [expletive}.”

Both Tea and TeaOnHer may face class action lawsuits by users whose personal data was leaked.

How did TeaOnHer users react to the breach?

On the subreddit r/technology, many users criticized the app’s lack of security following the first breach of the original Tea app.

“Wait, so they saw what happened with the first app getting ‘hacked’ and decided, let’s store user info in the same negligent way?” one asked.

“Whoever owns that site, should just sell their computer and not touch them ever again,” another said.

“Surprised guys put their finger in that light socket while their sister is still in the hospital with electrical burns,” a third joked.

Others questioned if the hack was a “set up” to expose men who use the app.

“Was this just a revenge project made by the original with the only intention of doxxing some men?” one wrote on X.

“Were there really idiots who fell for such an obvious bait?” another commented.

“Who wants to bet this was set up by an angry woman after the tea app debacle with full intent to leak it all?” a third asked.

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