A user selling 500 million WhatsApp Numbers of various countries in a underground hackers forum
WhatsApp data of 500 million users available for sale
The Leak Contains only Phone Numbers from Various Countries, same as previously leaked phone numbers from Facebook
What is Inside the Data
The Leak isn't directly linked to WhatsApp, research claims the data is of Scrapped using bots
How Hackers got access
There was a similar breach with Facebook few years ago, Perhaps the threat actor used bots to check if a WhatsApp account is linked with that numbersThough META isn't responded yet, we will update this story again