The WhatsApp logo and binary cyber codes are seen in this illustration taken on November 26, 2019. — Reuters/FileMeta-owned WhatsApp is back in news, not for its updates this time but for its user’s security being under threat.A person on the internet has claimed to allegedly possess up-to-date mobile phone numbers of around 500 million users of the social messaging website, an online publication Cybernews reported after confirming via an investigated data sample.The person claiming to have the alleged information posted an ad to sell the data on a hacking community forum on November 16 and offered to sell the 2022 database of around 487 million users of WhatsApp with “recent mobile numbers”.According to the ad, the dataset reportedly contains information of users from 84 countries. The alleged seller claims the availability of records of more than 45 million users from Egypt, 35 million from Italy, and over 32 million users from the US.Meanwhile, other countries include 29 million users from Saudi Arabia, and 20 million from France and Turkey each.Nearly 10 million users from Russia and more than 11 million from the United Kingdom are also allegedly at risk of having their mobile phone numbers on sale.The individual selling the
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Mobile numbers of 500 million WhatsApp users available for sale online: report – Geo.tv
