TikTok employees improperly accessed the user data of two journalists on the social-media service, according to emails sent by company leaders to employees on Thursday
TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd. said Thursday that its employees improperly accessed the user data of two journalists on the social media service, according to several emails sent by company leaders to employees on Thursday.
Employees misused their authority to access the data of journalists in an effort to identify leaks of confidential company information, General Counsel Erich Andersen wrote in an email to employees on Thursday. Mr. Andersen described the improper access of user data as “a misguided plan” that looked at the IP addresses of the journalists “to determine if they were in the same location as the employees suspected of leaking confidential information.
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