Daily Cyber Insights - Iain Fraser | Accredited Cybersecurity Journalist & Authority Writer

CYBER BREACH: 500 million WhatsApp user datasets sold online - Analysis Posted By: Iain Fraser - Cybersecurity Journalist, Gibraltar www.iainfraser.net Google Indexed on 281122 at 14:08 CET Stories are emerging that up to 500 million WhatsApp datasets including users mobile telephone numbers have been sold online but not as you may suppose via the "dark web" but a popular hacking community forum. According to Jurgita Lapienytė ,  Chief Editor at Cybernews.com  who originally broke this story the 2022 database is said to contain WhatsApp user data from 84 countries with Egypt having the largest chunk of stolen phone numbers (45 million), Italy with 35 million, and the US with 32 million. According to the threat actor, they are willing to sell the US dataset for $7000, the UK one for $2500, and the German one for $2000.  The dataset allegedly contains WhatsApp user data from 84 countries. Threat actor claims there are over 32 million US user records included with Another hu...