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Daily Mirror
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Kelly-Ann Mills

Tiktok denies huge security breach as hacker claims to have a billion users details

Social media video sharing app TikTok has denied a huge security breach after a hacker claims to have the personal details of more than a billion users.

Posts on a hackers' forum claim a group of users is in possession of a database of users - including many children who use the site - from both TikTok and WeChat, popular in China.

The hacker reportedly obtained the records from an insecure cloud server, although the video-sharing app giant denies this.

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