Phone numbers of about 500 million WhatsApp users have been reportedly put on sale online. These users belong to different countries worldwide.
WhatsApp has reportedly experienced a data breach, which has led to the theft of critical user data. In what could be one of the biggest data breaches, numbers of nearly 500 million WhatsApp users have been put up on sale online. A Cybernews report (via), claimed that the leaked phone numbers of WhatsApp users were put up on sale as an ad on a hacking community forum.
The ad post claimed to have the latest 2022 database details of 487 million WhatsApp users. These users belonged to a variety of countries. Let’s take a look at more details about the cybercrime that has risked the privacy of the affected users.
Phone numbers of about 500 million WhatsApp users have been reportedly put on sale online. These users belong to different countries worldwide. The list of 84 countries includes the US, the UK, Egypt, Italy, Saudi Arabia, etc. The report also stated that some of the victims whose phone numbers were put on sale were from India.
