What is it suffered a major new data breach a few days ago, which eventually exposed the phone numbers of nearly 500 million accounts, as well as 2.5 billion email addresses of users worldwide. In the special case of peruvianthe portal cybernews -who found and reported cyber attack– revealed that more than 8 million people were affected.

Yeah OK What is it He indicated that he did not think his platform had been hacked to obtain user information, in fact the database had been put up for sale via several forums piracy most popular of Internetexpose compromised accounts to attack smishing Y vishing.

How do I know if I’m affected by a WhatsApp data leak?

It is important to note that due to the large number of compromised accounts, it is very likely that we have been affected by this attack without knowing it. Profit, cybernewsportals from cyber security who report data leaks and sales on hacking forums, have tools that can let us know if our information is part of this breach.

“Our tester has a 500GB hashed email database”show cybernews on your page. If you want to consult this tool, you just need to enter following link and follow these instructions:

• Type your email address or phone number into the search box.
• Press ‘Check Now’.
• Check the search results and check.

behind this, cybernews It will give you some recommendations for keeping your credentials safe, such as changing your email password or implementing a new security method for your phone number.

For sale phone numbers of millions of WhatsApp users

cybernews shows the approximate amount of user data by your country. Among the countries with the largest number of leaked phone numbers is Egypt (44 million), Italy (35 million), United States of America (32 million), Saudi Arabia (28 million) and France (19 million). In the particular case of our country, cybercriminals indicated that there are 8,075,317 telephone numbers of Peruvian users in the database.

signature cybernews indicated in his report that he was able to verify the authenticity of the data sold by the hacker based on a sample provided to him by the same author (1097 phone numbers Kingdom Union and 817 from United States of America). The seller does not disclose how he managed to get all these numbers and only suggests that he use a strategy to collect them, ensuring that they really belong to active users of What is it.

The report author mentions that information about the user What is it can be obtained by collecting information on a scale (scrape), techniques that conflict with the application’s terms of service. However, as there is no way to verify this, this is just speculation based on previous cases where big data posted online was obtained this way.

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