India, July 26 -- The woman-only dating app, called 'Tea' was hacked, resulting in the leak of 72,000 selfies that users uploaded during verification, the company said.

'Tea' acknowledged the leak on in a statement after a user on the platform 4chan posted about it. In its statement, Tea, founded by Sean Cook, said that the "identified authorized access to one of our systems" that resulted in the leak.

Tea said that it has conducted a probe into the hack after allegations surfaced on social media, and the preliminary probe found that its "legacy data" systems have been breached.

The statement added that the leaked images were in two groups: 13,000 images were users' selfies uploaded during their profile verification, and 59,000 images ...