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TikTok denies {that a} hack not too long ago happened by which consumer information and supply code had been stolen. The hacker claims to have downloaded greater than two billion information factors and 6.7TB of information from TikTok and WeChat. The discussion board he posted it on has banned him.
The hacker AgainstTheWest claims to have gained entry to an Oracle server the place information from TikTok and WeChat was saved. The 2 social media have totally different homeowners; it’s not instantly clear why information from these two corporations would have been bundled.
On a hacker discussion board, AgainstTheWest claimed to have stolen a 790GB system log and downloaded a complete of 6.7TB of information. The hacker spoke of two.05 billion ‘consumer information’, with it being unclear whether or not it was 2 billion customers, or 2 billion information factors from a smaller variety of customers.
TikTok denies towards BleepingComputer, amongst others that his servers have been hacked. The information would have “nothing in any respect” to do with the social medium, in accordance with TikTok’s safety workforce. As well as, the consumer information couldn’t have been scraped immediately from the platform, as a result of the medium says it has ‘ample safety measures’ for this.
Have I Been Pwned-oprichter Troy Hunt writes on Twitter that not less than among the information is publicly out there. This might have been scraped from TikTok, or might have come from different sources. As well as, there may be information that Hunt says is ‘clearly pretend’. Hunt was due to this fact not instantly satisfied, primarily based on the info that AgainstTheWest launched, that TikTok had been hacked.
AgainstTheWest has since been banned from the hacker discussion board the place he introduced final Saturday that he had hacked TikTok and WeChat. The discussion board says the breach doesn’t belong to TikTok “and that he in all probability lied or did not even examine earlier than making his outrageous claims.” As well as, AgainstTheWest would have lied about breaches extra typically, claims the discussion board.
