ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok said on Thursday that an internal investigation found that employees had inappropriately obtained the data of US TikTok users. The employees gained access to the IP addresses and other data of two reporters and a small number of people connected with reporters by the TikTok accounts they were trying to determine if those individuals were within the proximity of ByteDance employees according to the company. "There are these holes in all of these social networking and consumer, digital consumer product companies that allow individuals to go in and do things with consumer data," he says.