TikTok confirms employees improperly accessed journalists’ user data in hunt for leaks | 24CA News

ByteDance, the Chinese dad or mum firm of in style video app TikTok, mentioned Thursday some staff this summer time improperly accessed TikTok person knowledge of two U.S. journalists and had been now not employed by the corporate.

ByteDance mentioned the staff accessed the information to attempt to determine potential connections between workers and the 2 journalists, who labored for BuzzFeed and the Financial Times, following leaks of firm data.

After an investigation, performed by an outdoor legislation agency, one ByteDance worker had resigned and three others had been fired, the New York Times reported. Two of the employees had been based mostly in China and the opposite two had been within the U.S.

The firm shared the outcomes of the investigation in an e-mail to workers on Thursday. 

ByteDance’s disclosure might add to stress TikTok is going through in Washington from lawmakers and the Biden administration over safety considerations about U.S. person knowledge.

Last 12 months, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mentioned Canada’s digital spy company was additionally watching out for safety threats from TikTok.