WhatsApp Data Leak A massive data breach from the popular messaging app WhatsApp is causing a stir. A recent cyber news report has revealed that the phone numbers of nearly 50 million users have been put up for sale online. Users from many countries including the US. A Cybernews article said the announcement of their sale was posted on a hacker community forum. The hacker advertised online that he was selling a 2022 database with the phone numbers of 57 million users. Markets include the US, UK, Egypt, Italy and Saudi Arabia.
While 4.5 million users were put up for sale from Egypt, Italy 30 million, America 3.2 million, Saudi Arabia 2.9 million, France 2 million, Turkey 2 million, Great Britain 1.1 million, Russia 1 million WhatsApp users were leaked. According to the Cyber news article, each country’s number is set at different rates. The data set for the US is $7,000, the data for the UK is $2,500 and the user numbers from Germany are $2,000.
The report warned that there is a risk of these numbers being bought by cyber criminals and there is a risk of fraudulent activity, so calls and messages from unknown numbers should not be answered. WhatsApp has more than two billion users worldwide. 1097 from UK and 817 user numbers from US. Cyber News checked all the numbers embedded in the sample and confirmed that they were all genuine WhatsApp users.
Marketers took a strategic approach to amassing a database. All numbers on Cyber News are owned by active users. Cyber News reached out to WhatsApp Meta’s parent company about this, but it declined to respond immediately.
Meanwhile.. This is not the first time that there has been data leakage in the companies belonging to Meta.. There have been massive data leakages in the past too.. Last year, the data of more than 60 million Facebook users was leaked in the hands of hackers. to the network.