Link: https://hackread.com/threat-actor-tiktok-breach-428-million-records-sale

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A newly emerged threat actor, going by the alias “Often9,” has posted on a prominent cybercrime and database trading forum, claiming to possess 428 million unique TikTok user records. The post is titled “TikTok 2025 Breach – 428M Unique Lines.”

The seller’s post, which appeared on the forum [on May 29, 2025], promises a dataset containing detailed user information such as:

• Email addresses
• Mobile phone numbers
• Biography, avatar URLs, and profile links
• TikTok user IDs, usernames, and nicknames
• Account flags like private_account, secret, verified, and ttSeller status.
• Publicly visible metrics such as follower counts, following counts, like counts, video counts, digg counts, and friend counts.

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