Chinese video-streaming platform Bilibili says user safety will not be affected following reports that source code and user data from the site had been leaked online.

In a statement Monday night, Bilibili confirmed this week’s leak but said that, because it was of a previous version of its code and since further “preventive measures” had been taken, user safety would not be negatively impacted. Earlier that same day, Chinese netizens found that a user on code-hosting platform GitHub had posted the Bilibili code, which contained usernames and passwords, according to domestic media. Bilibili did not comment directly on such user data in its statement about the leak.

The now-deleted GitHub repository had garnered about 6,000 stars and nearly the same number of forks — or likes and copies of the code, respectively — on the platform prior to its removal, domestic media said. By Tuesday afternoon, posts about the leak using a hashtag translating to “Bilibili back-end code revealed” had been removed from microblogging site Weibo. (Image: IC)