Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-09-03 00:00:00
Affected organization: WeChat
Affected country: China
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Protest
Actor: AgainstTheWest
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A group known as 'AgainstTheWest' claims to have breached both TikTok and WeChat, sharing screenshots of an alleged database belonging to the companies, which they say was accessed on an Alibaba cloud instance containing data for both TikTok and WeChat users.