Massive WhatsApp Data Breach Exposes 487 Million Users Worldwide, Including 19 Million in Morocco

This data breach concerns 84 countries, including Morocco. The hacking affected 19 million Moroccan users and 1.5 million Tunisian users. The most affected countries are Egypt (45 million users), Italy (35 million), the United States (32 million), Saudi Arabia (29 million), France and Turkey (20 million).

To operate, the hacker put up for sale on a hacker community forum on November 16, data on nearly half a million WhatsApp users. The cybersecurity media CyberNews claims to have managed to confirm that 1,097 hacked numbers are real numbers, linked to real WhatsApp user profiles. However, one question remains: how did these data leak?

For now, Meta has not communicated on this incident. A similar incident occurred in 2021. Personal data linked to 533 million Facebook accounts had been posted online on a hacker forum and were potentially accessible to malicious individuals.