ByteDance’s parent company suspects that its employees in the US and China have gained unauthorized access to users’ personal information.
ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of the popular TikTok app, investigated and reported that some of its employees had gained unauthorized access to personal information from their user accounts. Reuters writes about it.
Internal investigation actions are known to be conducted by a third-party law firm. The results of the investigation into this incident became known on Thursday, December 22.
According to the document, ByteDance employees learned about the IP addresses and personal data of the two journalists. They also gained access to the accounts of some media subscribers.
The victims were BuzzFeed reporter Emily Baker-White and journalist Christina Kridl, who worked for the Financial Times. The company did not name the other victims.
Four employees are suspected of gaining unauthorized access to confidential information of social network users. Two suspects were working in China, two more were employees of the company’s branch in the United States.
ByteDance says they’ve all lost their jobs already.
Note that TikTok is a popular video sharing program with around 100 million US users.
Recall that in August 2022, the British Parliament closed the TikTok account for fear of Chinese surveillance. British politicians demanded reliable assurances from the social network that the Chinese authorities did not receive any personal data.
In June Focus He also wrote that the developers turned Facebook into a kind of TikTok. Meta CEO Tom Alison admitted that the company will radically redesign the mainstream and begin rolling out new features to revamp the social network.
Source: Focus
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