Four ByteDance employees violated company policy by inappropriately accessing data on TikTok users in the U.S., including two journalists, in an attempt to track down the source of information leak…
users in the U.S., including two journalists, in an attempt to track down the source of information leaks, according to an internal report released by the Chinese company.The internal ByteDance report, as first
, found that the employees accessed the IP addresses and other data of two U.S.-based reporters via their TikTok accounts — one for BuzzFeed and one at the Financial Times — along with several people connected to the reporters., “The misconduct of those individuals, who are no longer employed at ByteDance, was an egregious misuse of their authority to obtain access to user data. This misbehavior is unacceptable, and not in line with our efforts across TikTok to earn the trust of our users.
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