Whats App may have have been breached

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I personally do not use these apps but received an email this morning from Lookout Security which I do use.
A post on a well-known hacking community forum claims almost half a billion WhatsApp records have been breached and are up for sale. The post, which multiple sources have confirmed is likely to be true, claims to be selling an up-to-date, 2022 database of 487 million mobile numbers used on WhatsApp, which contains data from 84 countries. More than 32 million of the leaked records are said to be from users in the US, with 11 million from UK users. Other affected nations include Egypt (45 million), Italy (35 million), Saudi Arabia (29 million), France (20 million), Turkey (20 million), and Russia (10 million). More information here: https://cybernews.com/news/whatsapp-data-leak/

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Thanks for the info, @Jonathan_Bickel . :handshake:

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Thanks @Jonathan_Bickel :+1: