Overview

The Tea App Data Leak refers to a large data leak from the "dating advice" site Tea in late July 2025. The app was purportedly created as a way for women to share anonymous reviews about men they have dated, but came under scrutiny in 2025 from internet users who viewed it as a way for women to defame men and invade their privacy. On July 25th, 2025, an anonymous 4chan user on the /pol/ board revealed that the selfies and IDs required to sign up for the Tea app were hosted on an easily accessible "public firebase storage bucket," with no authentication requirements for access. Other 4chan users then made a map pinpointing thousands of Tea app users across the United States. Internet users then began posting about how the Tea app allegedly "doxxed" its own users and highlighted the irony in the app failing to secure users' privacy. The Tea app issued a statement claiming that only users' data from after February 2025 was included in the leak. An anonymous user also made a website and game called "Teaspill" or "Tea Spill" with which users could rank photos of users taken from the Tea App data leak on a crowdsourced "Leaderboard."

Background

The Tea app is an anonymous dating-advice app for women launched in 2023 for women to share anonymous reviews on men they have dated. The app requires that users provide a selfie or some form of ID in order to verify that they are women.

On July 25th, 2025, an anonymous 4chan^[1] user on /pol/ posted a number of censored American driver's licenses, supposedly taken from an easily accessible "public firebase storage bucket" for the Tea app.

The post read, "Yes, if you sent Tea App your face and drivers license, they doxxed you publicly! No authentication, no nothing. It's a public bucket. I have written a Python script which scrapes the bucket and downloads all the images, page by page, so you can see if you're in it: https://pastebin.com/CPBiqd1E"

That same day, Redditor /u/RoachedCoach reposted a 404 Media^[3] article about the data leak from the Tea app to the /r/technology^[2] subreddit, alongside a caption that read, "Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan." The post received over 12,000 likes and 1,900 comments in a day.

Twitter / X^[4] user @CryptoCyberia was one of the first to post about the leak to Twitter on July 25th, gathering over 5 million views and 40,000 likes in a day on a post that read, "TLDR the Tea app stores everyone's photo and ID unencrypted in a public firebase storage bucket. Hahahahahah. Was this vibe coded?"

Developments

An anonymous user on 4chan's /g/^[5] board posted a Google Maps link with the geolocation data scraped from the images from the Tea app leak, writing, "I made a map of the roasties, enjoy."

The official Tea app Instagram^[7] page @theteaparty girls posted an official statement about the data leak on July 25th, claiming that the leak contained images from before 2023, which was stored to meet "law enforcement standards around cyberbullying prevention." The post also claimed, "if you signed up for the Tea app after February 2024, your data is safe."

Online Reactions

The Google map pins of Tea app users became a topic of discussion on Twitter / X on July 25th, as seen in a post by X^[6] user @ZTobias114838, who posted a screenshot of a Google map showing Tea app "roasties" (derogatory slang for a promiscuous woman^[15]), writing, "The drivers licenses leaked today from the tea app have been uploaded to a searchable map…. this may be the worst PII leak I've ever seen lol." The post gathered over 150,000 likes in a day.

That same day, X^[7] user @BelowTearline posted an image showing a Tea app geolocation pin in an airfield, writing, "Rule Number One: Do not take a selfie to sign up for a gossip app while working on the flight line at a secret military base." The X^[8] user then tweeted, "Rule Number Two: If you are the spouse of a high-ranking Congressman, don't take a selfie to sign up for a gossip app from inside the home of the individual you are having an affair with."

Also on July 25th, 2025, X^[9] user @mrmovedathand posted a SoLLUMINATI peace sign meme of the YouTuber and streamer alongside a caption that read, "just seen my momma driver license in dat tea app leak," gathering over 30,000 likes in a day.

TeaSpill App and Site

On July 26th, 2025, X^[10] user @ryanasanchez tweeted about an internet user making a site to rate photos of women sourced from the Tea app data leak, writing, "Someone created a website where you can rate the users of the hacked feminist doxing app 'Tea'. Is this the most chopped userbase of all time?" The tweet received over 14.3 million views and 84,000 likes in two days.

The website, called Teaspill,^[11][14] allows users to rank women's photos on a crowdsourced "Leaderboard," which was ranked by asking users to "Click on the Foid you prefer."

The website was also shared to 4chan's /pol/^[12] board on July 26th with the caption "RATE YOUR FOID." The 4chan post was in turn shared on Reddit's /r/4chan^[13] subreddit, where it gathered over 2,000 upvotes in two days.

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