TikTok

TikTok

Popular short-form video sharing platform TikTok suffered a data security incident after a hacker group, AgainstTheWest gained access to an internal cloud server containing its source code and user information.

The accessed database was hosted on a Alibaba cloud instance, and hold over 2 billion records in a 790 GB database containing user data, platform statistics, software code, cookies, auth tokens, server info, and more.

Source: url should be: https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/tiktok-denies-data-breach

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/tiktok

"id": "tik213327922",
"linkid": "tiktok",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "09/2022",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "5",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the organization's existence"
{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Social Media',
                        'name': 'TikTok',
                        'type': 'Company'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Unauthorized Access to Cloud Server',
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': '2 billion',
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['user data',
                                              'platform statistics',
                                              'software code',
                                              'cookies',
                                              'auth tokens',
                                              'server info']},
 'description': 'TikTok suffered a data security incident after a hacker '
                'group, AgainstTheWest, gained access to an internal cloud '
                'server containing its source code and user information.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['user data',
                                 'platform statistics',
                                 'software code',
                                 'cookies',
                                 'auth tokens',
                                 'server info'],
            'systems_affected': ['Internal cloud server']},
 'threat_actor': 'AgainstTheWest',
 'title': 'TikTok Data Security Incident',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}
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