Europe, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Costa Rica… millions of WhatsApp numbers from many countries have leaked.
WhatsApp has just posted a very important data leak that affects almost 25% of its users. The messaging paliaron currently has around 2 billion active users and would be they leaked the WhatsApp numbers of nearly 500 million users.
This is how they assure him of CyberNewswhere they reveal that a well-known hacking forum has put up for sale a database of 487 million phone numbers belonging to WhatsApp users
Nearly 500 million WhatsApp numbers of active users leaked
A serious problem that can affect many users
WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app and for this reason a data breach like this can be very dangerous. The techniques that were used to extract these phone numbers are unknown, but it appears that they are all phone numbers belonging to active WhatsApp users. A bug was recently discovered in non-updated versions of WhatsApp, this may be an option.
CyberNews was able to confirm, by contacting the seller of the WhatsApp number database, that indeed they are active users
The country with the highest leak is Egypt with over 44 million numbers, followed by Italy with 35 million and the United States with 32. These are the 20 countries most affected by WhatsApp leak:
- Egypt: 44 823 547 WhatsApp numbers
- Italy: 35 677 323 WhatsApp numbers
- United States: 32 315 282 WhatsApp numbers
- Saudi Arabia: 28 804 686 WhatsApp numbers
- France: 19 848 559 WhatsApp numbers
- Turkey: 19,638,821 WhatsApp numbers
- Morocco: 18 939 198 WhatsApp numbers
- Colombia: 17 957 908 WhatsApp numbers
- Iraq: 17,116,398 WhatsApp numbers
- Africa: 14,323,766 WhatsApp numbers
- Mexico: 13,330,561 WhatsApp numbers
- Malaysia: 11,675,894 WhatsApp numbers
- UK: 11,522,328 WhatsApp numbers
- Algeria: 11,505,898 WhatsApp numbers
- Europe: 10 894 206 WhatsApp numbers
- Russia: 9,996,405 WhatsApp numbers
- Sudan: 9,464,772 WhatsApp numbers
- Nigeria: 9,000,131 WhatsApp numbers
- Peru: 8,075,317 WhatsApp numbers
- Brazil: 8,064,916 WhatsApp numbers
Other Spanish-speaking countries affected by the leak have been Chile with 6,889,083 leaked numbers, Bolivia with 2,959,209 numbers, Argentina with 2,347,553, Uruguay with 1,509,317, from Costa Rica 1,464,002 numbers were disclosed, in Ecuador 310 259 and Porto Rico 130,586 numbers were leaked.
It is certainly a serious problem. A lot of Affected users may start receiving advertising or scam attempts via calls or messages on their home phones. Beware of anything that could happen to you and check before entering your data on a website.
