A massive WhatsApp data breach has reportedly affected over 500 million users, with their phone numbers put up on sale. Details here.
A massive WhatsApp data breach has reportedly affected over 500 million users, with their phone numbers put up on sale. Details here.
In a rather shocking turn of events, phone numbers of around 500 million WhatsApp users have been leaked in a data breach and are up for sale on a popular hacking forum. The database which has been leaked contains the private information of WhatsApp users from 84 countries, including around 32 million records from the US itself, and millions of users from India, Egypt, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, Bulgaria, and more. The leaked database is up for grabs for $7,000 (approx Rs 5,72,000).
According to a report by Cybernews, the hacker has posted the data of more than 500 million records on sale for $7,000.
