On April 17, 2022 a data leak allegedly belonging to a video-focused social networking service TikTok started spreading on underground hacking platforms. It consisted of JSON and SQL files totalling 26GB.
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Kaduu Team has analysed files in this “leak”. The dataset is just metadata for 32,489,068 TikTok videos, scraped between 2020-07-22 and 2020-10-13, meaning, it does not bear sensitive information.
The both JSON and SQL files represent the same data. As hacker describes: “Everything in the JSON file is unaltered response from TikTok, the MySQL database is a bit more trimmed down.”
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In addition to the videos, there is metadata on:
- 12,382,540 sounds
- 2,533,869 challenges (hashtags)
- 218,479 authors (video creators)