Watch out, some TikTok celeb accounts have been hacked

Is a celeb account on TikTok acting suspiciously? Probabilities are they’ve been hacked.

It seems that a hacker or a group of hackers are presently exploiting an undisclosed safety problem, and applying it to target higher-profile accounts on TikTok.

Forbes reported on the attack earlier this week, noting that the accounts belonging to CNN, Sony, and Paris Hilton have been taken more than by hackers.

According to the report, hackers are applying malware which is transmitted via direct messages on TikTok, and does not call for the victim to do something beyond opening a message. So far, the hacked account are not posting something, which is somewhat odd for celeb account hacks.

TikTok has acknowledged that some thing is going on, although the firm did not precisely share also several specifics.

“Our safety group is conscious of a prospective exploit targeting a quantity of brand and celebrity accounts. We have taken measures to cease this attack and avoid it from taking place in the future. We’re operating straight with impacted account owners to restore access, if required,” a spokesperson for ByteDance, the firm that owns TikTok, told Forbes. The spokesperson did later add that the quantity of compromised accounts was “pretty little.”

Be that as it could, higher-profile account hacks are usually unsafe as these profiles ordinarily have substantial follower numbers, and can be employed to additional spread malware or disinformation.

In case of CNN, in certain, Semafor reported that the company’s TikTok account was taken down for numerous days, and CNN is operating with TikTok to place more measures in spot to avoid this from taking place once again.

TikTok is not the only social media platform that is beneath attack from hackers correct now. Various higher-profile accounts have not too long ago been hacked on X as nicely, such as Microsoft India’s account, which has been employed to direct customers to a fake crypto web-site created to steal user funds.

TikTok, which is facing a ban in the U.S., has not too long ago turn out to be an essential subject ahead of the U.S. elections, with Donald Trump joining the platform (President Biden was currently there, although only in the kind of his campaign’s account) and swiftly amassing far more than 5 million followers.