Hacker Says They Breached TikTok Accessed Personal Data

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7th September 2022, Kathmandu

An alleged hack of the popular short video-making app TikTok may have exposed the data of more than 1 billion users.

According to the cyber security researchers, they have discovered a breach of an insecure server that allowed access to TikTok’s storage, which they believed contained personal user data.

Reports of a data breach first emerged on a popular hacking forum over the weekend, with hackers claiming to have exploited an insecure server containing the personal information of TikTok users.

The claims coincided with a security alert from Microsoft warning of a “high-security vulnerability” in TikTok’s Android app, which could have allowed attackers to “compromise users’ accounts with a single click.”

Hackers claimed to have access to around 34GB of data from TikTok users.

A TikTok spokesperson denied that any breach had occurred, adding that the vulnerability identified by Microsoft is completely unrelated to TikTok’s backend source code.

TikTok prioritizes the privacy and security of our user’s data,  a spokesperson of TikTok said, “Our security team investigated these claims and found no evidence of a security breach.”

TikTok is the world’s most visited website, according to security firm Cloudflare, having overtaken Google in 2021.


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