The women-only dating app Tea experienced a significant data breach when hackers discovered its unsecured database. Over 72,000 personal images and documents, including selfies and ID verifications uploaded by users, were exposed online. The breach, totaling 59.3 GB of data, included private images and messages from users dating as recently as 2024 and 2025, violating prior claims about the data's recency. The leak originated from a public Firebase bucket, attributed to lax security measures, possibly due to what was referred to as 'vibe coding'—a process where developers create applications using AI tools without proper security assessments. Critics of the app highlighted its initial purpose to protect women while ironically leading to their doxxing. Users are being urged to sign up for credit monitoring as a precaution against identity theft. Developer reliance on AI-generated code has raised concerns due to prevalent security holes, with nearly half of AI-generated code containing exploitable flaws.

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