WhatsApp was exposed to a big data leak: Hackers sold nearly 500 million

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Meta’s messaging software WhatsApp was “stolen” 

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and the information of nearly 500 million users may have been leaked. 

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Recently, a user posted on a well-known hacker forum 

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laiming that he is selling the information data of more than 487 million WhatsApp users. 

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The digital security investigation media Cybernews reported on November 24 

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that it had obtained samples from sellers and confirmed that the data on sale did come from real users of WhatsApp. 

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According to the user’s post, the above-mentioned data involved 84 countries and regions, 

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WhatsApp was exposed to a big data leak