WhatsApp hack of 50 crore users; Zuckerberg explains how to save data

 Hackers have hacked the data of around 50 crore WhatsApp users worldwide and offered it for sale on the black market.

According to the global news agency, hackers allegedly got hold of the phone numbers of around 50 crore WhatsApp users from 84 countries and recently put this database up for sale on a hacking community forum.

It should be noted that currently around 2 billion people are using the WhatsApp platform. This means that the leaked database contains the phone numbers of a quarter of WhatsApp users.

Among the hacked numbers, 32 million American, 45 million Egyptian, 50 million Italian, 29 million Saudi Arabian, 11 million British and 10 million Russian phone numbers belong to the phone numbers.

According to CyberNews, the sellers of these numbers did not say how they obtained the database, but claimed to have used their own tactics to collect the data.

Analysts, on the other hand, say the hackers did not technically "hack" WhatsApp, but collected data through "web scraping," which involves running an automated script to verify web pages that So the numbers are being used for WhatsApp.

There is no way to know if your phone number is in this database.Although Mark Zuckerberg says that WhatsApp is still very secure, users can go to WhatsApp settings and "Last Seen" message. , "Online", "Profile Photo", and "About" can be protected from hacking by changing them to "contacts only".

Mark Zuckerberg did not say when WhatsApp users' data for sale in the market was hacked and what steps the company has taken to address it.