Hackers From Anonymous Join the Attack on TikTok
The group known as Anonymous claims that TikTok is a tool used by the Chinese government to spy and contains numerous security gaps.
TikTok is an extremely popular app, especially among children and teenagers. However, one can be tempted to say that it's been having a hard time recent - it has been pulled from App Store and Google Play store in India, it has been found to contain many strange security gaps, its creators are being accused of censorship, and now it has been targeted by the famous hacker group Anonymous, which resumed its activity after a long absence (just after George Floyd's death).
The person who, on Twitter, claims to be a member of the group, writes directly to remove TikTok. In his post, the group member shows screenshots of a deleted post on Reddit, in which one of the users claimed to have learned, by means of reverse engineering, that TikTok is collecting virtually all the data it can - from whether the phone has jailbreak or root to the user's location data.
The developers of the app were asked by Forbes for a clarification, but they did not answer the questions.
Anonymous's thunderous words have repeatedly influenced the course of various affairs in the past, and there is much to suggest that it may now be the same, as the group's opinion coincides with that of the American government, which has long warned citizens against installing and using Chinese applications. Donald Trump's administration showed that if someone gets on their bad side, they can expect painful sanctions (the Huawei case). Is it possible to expect a mass removal of Chinese applications from American digital stores (similar to what India has done, banning as many as 59 different, very famous applications linked to China)? Surely such a scenario cannot be excluded.
