One of the most popular apps in the world, TikTok has over a billion users. However, due to worries about data security, it has recently come under more scrutiny. According to reports, a number of cybersecurity experts found a security flaw in an insecure TikTok server that allegedly allowed access to storage that contained personal user data. These allegations of a breach have been denied by TikTok. A "high-severity vulnerability" was reportedly found by Microsoft as well in the TikTok Android app, "which would have allowed attackers to compromise users' accounts with a single click."
Numerous cybersecurity experts tweeted on Monday about an alleged breach of an insecure TikTok that might have allowed access to user personal information, according to a Bloomberg report.
Since then, a TikTok spokesperson has refuted the allegations of a breach. They stated in a statement that the disputed code is unrelated to the source code for TikTok's backend.
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An Australian web security expert named Troy Hunt discovered the matches in the listed leaked files, but he concluded that the data was inconclusive because it could have been created using publicly available information.
Prior to the US midterm elections, TikTok bans videos from paid political influencers.
However, Microsoft also found a flaw in TikTok's Android app that might have given hackers access to user profiles and private data. According to TikTok, it was quick to address any problems that Microsoft had allegedly found in earlier iterations of the app.
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