The personal information and content of TikTok’s 1bn users were left vulnerable to hackers, according to a group of cyber security experts, as fears persist over the security of the Chinese-owned viral video app.
Researchers at Israeli security software company Check Point said on Wednesday that they had found several vulnerabilities in the infrastructure of the social media platform, which could have allowed attackers to access user data. The issues have since been fixed by TikTok, who said that there was no evidence of any breaches.
The news comes as the fast-growing platform, which is popular among Western teenagers and owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, faces scrutiny from US politicians over its Chinese roots, in part for data privacy reasons.