WhatsApp, it’s an alarm: widespread telephone numbers of many Italians

Many WhatsApp users have seen their number spread by a hacker. The situation is causing great concern: it is alarm. Let’s go into the details of a story that didn’t just affect Italy.

When connected to the network, our data and information are always at risk. The various and most important platforms are working to give more and more security. But, in many cases, this is not always guaranteed. As in the case of a database that appeared with nearly half a billion phone numbers of messaging app users.

Whatsapp is the leading application in its sector. The growth has been really very important and has allowed it to become a real point of reference in this field. As we have announced, something not exactly positive has occurred. Which is causing a lot of users a strong concern.

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the work done by the development team. An intense work that has resulted to an important news on WhatsApp. Now, however, they have come completely negative. These have been highlighted by the Sammobile website. The portal reveals that the database has been put up for sale on a forum for cybercriminals. According to what emerged, the database would contain 487 million telephone numbers.

WhatsApp alarm, sale of a database: there would be about half a million phone numbers

As reported by the Sammobile website, the situation would be very deep and serious. This database would contain information about people from 84 different countries. The acquisition of the large container would allow to start spam campaigns And phishing. Which would bring serious difficulties to users. Also because of scam has been heard a lot recently about WhatsApp.

As reported, they would be 35 million telephone numbers from Italy. The exposed percentage of numbers offered for sale is frightening. This affects as much as 25% of the total users of the platform. We are talking about almost 2 billion people.

In addition to the 35 million Italians, we find 32 million from the United States of America. The 45 million from Egypt, the 29 million from Saudi Arabia. Continuing we find the 20 million from France, the same figure for Turkey. Then there are the 11 million from Russia and the 10 from the UK.

From the numbers we can see the large amount of data that could end up in anyone’s hands. At the moment, the ways that led the hacker to get hold of this database are not clear. As reported by Cybernews.itthe activated mechanism would be that of the scraping. This process wins in retrieving information from different portals of various referral services. This makes us understand that the hacker did not directly hit the well-known platform but third parties following various exploits.