WHATSAPP DATA BREACH
500 MILLION PHONE USERS' NUMBERS ON SALE
Published By Livemint
| 27 Nov, 2022
Nearly 500 million WhatsApp users' phone numbers are put up for sale online
An actor has posted an ad on a hacking community forum, claiming to sell a 2022 database of 487 million WhatsApp user
The information is mostly used by attackers for phishing attacks
It is advisable for WhatsApp users to refrain from calls and messages from unknown numbers
Data of Whatsapp users from 84 countries is put on sale
This is not the first time Meta and its platforms have made headlines for data breach
Last year, a leakster was offering information of more than 500 million Facebook users