When Cid Walker opens the Tea app, she’s greeted by a barrage of posts about men and their apparent "red" and "green" "flags."“He’s a cheater,” Walker said, reading some of the comments on one post out loud.

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.

Over the weekend, the Tea app announced it had suffered a data breach, and hackers had accessed roughly 72,000 images, including 13,000 selfies submitted for account verification and 59,000 images from posts,