TikTok Users' Personal Data Purportedly Breached via Insecure Server Hosted on Alibaba Cloud
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Publishing note: Although I said we weren’t publishing today in honor of the U.S. Labor Day holiday, the amount of infosec news coming out since Friday made me change my mind.
Several cybersecurity analysts say they discovered what is purportedly a breach of an insecure server hosted on Alibaba Cloud that allowed access to TikTok’s storage, which they believe contained personal user data.
Last week Microsoft Corp. said it had found a “high-severity vulnerability” in TikTok’s Android application, “which would have allowed attackers to compromise users’ accounts with a single click.” TikTok said the claims of a breach discovered over the weekend were incorrect. “Our security team investigated this statement and determined that the code in question is completely unrelated to TikTok’s backend source code,” a spokesperson said.…
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