According to a statement posted on the breached forum, AWT allegedly gained access to user databases and source codes TikTok and WeChat platforms. As evidence, the hackers posted links to two data samples and a video recording of a series of database tables.

what does the company say

The hackers write that they removed 2 billion records from the database and also compromised the source code of the backend. Experts think these claims are fake. The company announces the same position. The TikTok press service told Bloomberg that the claim about the attack was a lie and that the part of the code shown did not match the truth:

Our security department investigated this claim and determined that the source code in question was completely unrelated to the TikTok backend source code.
– said the company representative.

The size of databases varies widely, ranging from 34 to 790 gigabytes, depending on the type, AWT said. The criminals have yet to decide what to do with it, but they say they don’t want to sell or publish the stolen items.

why can i lie

• Australian cybersecurity expert Troy Hunt analyzed the available information and found a match between user profiles and videos posted under their identities, along with mismatched data. However, most of these details were public and had not been hacked. He described the AWT’s information as “inconclusive”.
• In addition, the submitted files overlap with previously published databases created using automatic data collection (parsing).
• Another reason not to trust the word of hackers is their statements that have been proven wrong before. They claimed to have hacked the Russian FSB servers, but under the guise of this they published a database dump of the zakon.ru social network.