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Threat Actor Claims TikTok Breach, Puts 428 Million Records Up for Sale (hackread.com)
submitted 17 hours ago by Hotznplotzn to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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crosspostato da: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/36247127

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A newly emerged threat actor, going by the alias “Often9,” has posted on a prominent cybercrime and database trading forum, claiming to possess 428 million unique TikTok user records. The post is titled “TikTok 2025 Breach – 428M Unique Lines.”

The seller’s post, which appeared on the forum [on May 29, 2025], promises a dataset containing detailed user information such as:

  • Email addresses
  • Mobile phone numbers
  • Biography, avatar URLs, and profile links
  • TikTok user IDs, usernames, and nicknames
  • Account flags like private_account, secret, verified, and ttSeller status.
  • Publicly visible metrics such as follower counts, following counts, like counts, video counts, digg counts, and friend counts.

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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Big if true, but there's people claiming similar feats every hour of every day, and the wildly vast majority are just scammers preying on the wannabe scammers. Eagerly awaiting confirmation tho, this'd be a spectacularly ironic way to demonstrate the importance of having privacy laws and decent security...