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ByteDance employees accessed the data as part of an unsuccessful effort to investigate leaks of company information earlier this year and were aiming to identify potential connections between two journalists, a former BuzzFeed reporter, and a Financial Times reporter, and company employees, the email from ByteDance general counsel Erich Andersen said.