{"id":4110,"date":"2024-06-06T11:48:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T11:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/paris-hilton-and-cnn-among-accounts-targeted-in-tiktok-cyber-attack\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T11:48:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T11:48:52","slug":"paris-hilton-and-cnn-among-accounts-targeted-in-tiktok-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/paris-hilton-and-cnn-among-accounts-targeted-in-tiktok-cyber-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Hilton and CNN among accounts targeted in TikTok cyber attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>TikTok has taken measures to stop a cyber attack targeting several brand and celebrity accounts, including news network CNN.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the company said: &#8220;We have been collaborating closely with CNN to restore account access and implement enhanced security measures to safeguard their account moving forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-outbrain\" data-target=\"\" data-widget-mapping=\"\" data-installation-keys=\"\">    <\/div>\n<p><strong>TikTok<\/strong> said the number of accounts compromised is &#8220;very small&#8221; and it is working with affected account owners to restore access if needed.<\/p>\n<p>A source at TikTok told Reuters news agency the account of reality TV star Paris Hilton was targeted but had not been compromised.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok parent company ByteDance is currently <strong>challenging a law<\/strong> that requires it to sell TikTok by next January or face a ban in the US.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>The White House said it wants to see Chinese-based ownership ended on national security grounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Tap here to follow the Sky News Daily wherever you get your podcasts <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TikTok has argued it will not share US user data with the Chinese government and that it has taken substantial measures to protect the privacy of its users.<\/p>\n<p>The legal challenge could argue a ban would deprive the app&#8217;s 170 million US users of their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>The law could also face opposition from <strong>TikTok<\/strong><strong> <\/strong>creators who rely on it for their income, while <strong>China<\/strong> has previously said it would oppose a forced sale.<\/p>\n<p>The use of TikTok by the federal government&#8217;s nearly four million employees on devices owned by its agencies is already banned in the US.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are limited exceptions for law enforcement, national security and security research purposes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok has taken measures to stop a cyber attack targeting several brand and celebrity accounts, including news network CNN. A spokesperson for the company said: &#8220;We have been collaborating closely with CNN to restore account access and implement enhanced security measures to safeguard their account moving forward.&#8221; TikTok said the number of accounts compromised is <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}