For a few days, there has been a lot of information that the short video app TikTok has been hacked, which reportedly holds more than 2 billion user database records. However, TikTok has refuses this data breach.
Last week, a user shared a screenshot of the company’s alleged database, which appears to be accessed on an Alibaba Cloud instance that contained data from both TikTok and WeChat users.
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This server holds a colossal size of 790GB of over 2 billion user databases which includes user data, platform statistics, software code, cookies, auth tokens, server information, and much more.
TikTok officially declared that data breaching is false information as the security team investigated and determined that the code in question is completely unrelated to TikTok’s backend source code, which has never been merged with WeChat data.
At the same time, TikTok also stated that user data cannot be directly scraped by the platform, as they have adequate security. Although WeChat and TikTok are both Chinese companies and have separate parent companies, the first is related to Tencent and the second is related to ByteDance. So looking at them in the same database shows that it is not a direct violation on every platform.
TikTok completely refutes the data breach claim as the source code shared by the hacker forum is not part of its platform, while there has been no response from WeChat.
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