TikTok is likely harvesting the data from troops to understand US army strategy and the locations of military barracks, said the Federal Communications Commission.

A report by the Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter, said that Shanghai authorities had summoned executives from Alibaba's cloud division in relation to the data breach.

TikTok said its staff in China were able to access Australian users' data but added that "our security teams minimise the number of people who have access to data"

Hikvision, Dahua and Huawei facial recognition cameras are being installed in cities across Myanmar by its military government, with hundreds more to come, sources say.

The rules will govern how companies and other entities handle large quantities of personal user information, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said

"The Chinese government is set on stealing your technology — whatever it is that makes your industry tick—and using it to undercut your business and dominate your market," says the FBI.

The call by Democratic senator Mark Warner and his Republican colleague Marco Rubio followed a Buzzfeed report saying TikTok staff in China could access private data of US users

Hacker offering to sell the more than 23 terabytes of data for 10 bitcoin, equivalent to about $200,000.

CAC said it had amassed a fraud database of 3.8 million websites and 500,000 apps. It did not specify if any are still operating or elaborate on any penalties issued

Companies that collect personal data will be responsible for assessing if it needs to be protected when it is transferred overseas, under new rules drafted by the China's government regulator

Beijing spymasters recruited the English-language graduates on behalf of APT40, which snoops on US, Canadian, European, Israeli and Arab agencies, companies and universities

China's public security ministry said its cyber division would identify and remove social media accounts and posts that disrupt social harmony