19m Nigerians’ Records For Sale As Whatsapp Data Leaks

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A database containing up-to-date mobile phone numbers of 487 million Whatsapp users, including 19 million from Nigeria was leaked and put up for sale, with

The threat actor told Cybernews they were selling the US dataset for $7,000, the UK for $2,500, and Germany for $2,000.

Cybernews investigated all the numbers included in the sample and managed to confirm that all of them are, in fact, WhatsApp users. Head of Cybernews research team, Mantas Sasnauskas, said: “In this age, we all leave a sizeable digital footprint and tech giants like Meta should take all precautions and means to safeguard that data.

 

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