Heads up WhatsApp users: #CoSoSec
hacker has allegedly posted a dataset to the dark web containing the personal information of almost 500 million WhatsApp users
which was uploaded to hacking forum BreachForums on November 16, the hacker claimed to be selling up-to-date personal information of 487 million WhatsApp users from 84 countries no official statement from WhatsApp or its parent company
A screenshot of the alleged hacker's post on BreachedForums
@ecksmc The editor of Cybernews, Jurgita Lapienytė, later posted to Twitter confirming there was no evidence WhatsApp had been hacked, but that didn’t mean that users weren’t still at risk.
“The leak might be a scrape but that doesn’t mean it’s any less dangerous for the affected users,” she said.
@Pat_Walrond same person 🤷♂️
According to CyberNews, the site was able to verify that 1,914 phone numbers provided by the malicious party did belong to WhatsApp users, meaning the hacker’s claims were “likely...to be true”
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Jurgita Lapienytė Chief Editor Updated on: 29 November 2022