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CYBER BREACH: 500 million WhatsApp user datasets sold online - Analysis

CYBER BREACH: 500 million WhatsApp user datasets sold online - Analysis
Posted By: Iain Fraser - Cybersecurity Journalist, Gibraltar

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 huge chunk of phone numbers belongs to the citizens of Egypt (45 million), Italy (35 million), Saudi Arabia (29 million), France (20 million), and Turkey (20 million).  Learn More - Register Free to receive the full story & my full analysis direct to your inbox or smart device.

The complete list of countries is included in the original report by Cybernews.com  which also contains the exact amount of numbers up for sale. 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.  Learn More - Register Free to receive the full story & my full analysis direct to your inbox or smart device.

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