Half a Billion people with WhatsApp might be Getting Spam and Scams.
A database containing the
phone numbers of a quarter of all WhatsApp users was recently put up for sale
on a hacker community forum. it contains 487 million phone numbers belonging to
active Whatsapp users in 84 countries.
A source (via Cybernews) noted that they were able to gain access to "half a billion phone numbers of active WhatsApp users." The site didn't say how they got the data. It is possible that they built their database by scraping, which entails gathering data from websites. In other words, this particular hacker group was collecting phone numbers from specific web pages and then used those hits to build a list of 500 million confirmed WhatsApp contacts.
A database of phone numbers
could be used for spam, phishing attempts, or even worse. There's really no way
of knowing if your phone number is in there and it can't be deleted. But if you
want to protect WhatsApp-related data including your profile picture and status
updates from possible prying eyes who may have gotten a hold of your phone
number, you can update these settings through the "Settings" section.
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