ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of popular video app TikTok, said some employees improperly accessed the TikTok user data of two journalists and were no longer employed by the company, an email seen by the Reuters news agency shows.
ByteDance employees accessed the data as part of an unsuccessful effort to investigate leaks of company information earlier this year and were aiming to identify potential connections between two journalists – a former BuzzFeed reporter and Financial Times reporter – and company employees, according to the email sent on Thursday by ByteDance lawyer Erich Andersen.
