April 24, 2025 By Paulina Okunytė
A hacking crew claims it warned TikTok, got ghosted, and is now unleashing nearly a million users' passwords.
A group calling itself R00TK1T ISC CYBER TEAM just lobbed a grenade, claiming to have snatched 972,000 TikTok users' passwords. As the attackers claimed, no one at TikTok answered their DMs, so they’re making good on their threat to leak a massive sample set.
“We warned Bytedance and TikTok, but their silence speaks volumes. Despite our clear message, they have ignored the cries of users locked out, suspended, or erased from the platform,” the group posted in their communication channel.
“Today we’re dropping a sample of 927K TikTok users into the wild,” they add. If the leak proves to be legit, it could mean mass account takeovers, phishing sprees, or even identity theft at scale.
