Was TikTok hacked? TikTok says it wasn't and that it has found no evidence to support a recent claim that it had been breached.
Popular short-form video app TikTok recently found itself having to refute claims that it had been hacked, and is continuing to rebut the charge.
The most concerning thing about this security breach claim is that the server that was breached allegedly contains 2.05 billion records within a 790GB database which houses “user data, platform statistics, software code, cookies, auth tokens, server info, and many more.” TikTok prioritizes the privacy and security of our users’ data. Our security team investigated these claims and found no evidence of a security breach. https://t.co/TdCZDUFLPN TikTok also confirmed further details on the matter to The Verge, saying that TikTok users didn’t need to do anything and that “the data samples in question are all publicly accessible and are not due to any compromise of TikTok systems, networks, or databases.
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