A previously disclosed hack affecting Tea, a women-only dating advice app, was more extensive than previously thought, the company said Monday. Tea's investigation of the incident found that app users' direct messages had been breached,

Messaging has been turned off on the women's dating safety app Tea, following a hack which has exposed thousands of members' images, posts and comments.

The platform suffered its first breach, leaking over 72,000 images used for account verification including selfies and photo IDs, which later surfaced on online forums like 4chan.