- // Update 1 (29/11/2022 12:10 pm)
WhatsApp might have become a victim of a major data breach. As per a recent report, around 500 million WhatsApp phone numbers have been leaked and are up for sale. These numbers are from 84 countries, including India. Check out the details below for more information.
A report by CyberNews reveals that a threat actor posted an ad on a hacking community forum to sell the data of 487 million WhatsApp users. The database included data belonging to around 32 million users in the US, 45 million in Egypt, 29 million in Saudi Arabia, 35 million in Italy, and over 11 million users in the UK. Data of millions of people in India, Russia, and more countries were leaked too.
Update 1 (29/11/2022 12:10 pm)
WhatsApp has provided an official statement on the matter. A WhatsApp spokesperson has said, “The claim written on Cybernews is based on unsubstantiated screenshots. There is no evidence of a ‘data leak’ from WhatsApp.”
In addition, CyberNews’ Chief Editor, Jurgita Lapienytė, has suggested that there’s no confirmation about the hack.
There’s no evidence WhatsApp has been hacked. The leak might be a scrape but that doesn’t mean it’s any less dangerous for the affected users. https://t.co/7x9aDFaKQa
— Jurgita Lapienytė (@lapienyte) November 26, 2022
