After posts on hacking sites claimed to have exposed the source code of the app and the account information of potentially billions of users, TikTok denied a security breach. After looking into the claims, the business issued a statement on Twitter claiming that it has “discovered no evidence of a breach.” The allegedly released source code “is absolutely unrelated to TikTok’s backend source code,” according to the hackers

After a post on a hacking site claimed to have access to a database with more than two billion records relating to TikTok and WeChat accounts, claims of a possible breach started to spread among the security community. According to the hacker group, a cloud service that was not protected is where they got the TikTok recordings. Security expert Troy Hunt noted that although the so-called hackers released a sample of the TikTok data, it contained information that was already available to the public and “could have been produced without intrusion.” The data was often “very inconclusive,” according to Hunt, the owner of the “haveibeenpwned” service.

Even though TikTok has vehemently denied a hack, the data in the database may have originated from other sources. It can be the outcome of data being scraped from the service by a data broker or any other third party.