WhatsApp closes loophole that let researchers collect data on 3.5B accounts

Messaging giant WhatsApp has around three billion users in more than 180 countries. Researchers say they were able to identify around 3.5 billion registered WhatsApp accounts thanks to a flaw in the software. That higher number is possible because WhatsApp’s API returns all accounts registered to...

World’s largest data dump surfaces on web with 2.2 billion accounts

By Waqas It hasn’t even been 15 days since details of the world’s biggest online private data dump were discovered by security researchers and now its second "installment" has posted online. As per the report from Heise.de, a German-language website, the first collection, which was published on...