Whatsapp data breach more than 32 million of the leaked records are said to be from users in the us, with 11 million from uk users. This comes after the other huge leak in 2023, where over 500 million numbers were breached. The data of around 500 million whatsapp users has reportedly been leaked online and put up for sale on a hacking community forum by an anonymous seller, according to cybernews.
WhatsApp video calling shown on leaked images, tabbed chats in the works
Whatsapp has around two billion monthly active users worldwide and this leak puts nearly half a billion users at risk
Cybernews also points out that the leaked accounts all belong to active.
Check point found that the sale of the whatsapp dataset was live for four days Now it is being distributed for free between dark web users. The news source affirms the validity of the leaked whatsapp numbers despite the lack of details regarding how the data was obtained Threat actor is offering the alleged whatsapp data leak for a relatively low cost, dividing it up by country of origin and offering each package for prices in the range of several thousand dollars via a dark web forum.
Over a billion whatsapp numbers leaked on dark web our threat intelligence team has uncovered yet another huge leak of whatsapp phone numbers A hacker recently posted on the dark web, claiming to have over one billion numbers for sale
