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The experts of the cybersecuirty forum Red Hot Cyber they found several millions of telephone numbers and Whatsapp accounts of Italian users for sale in an underground forum (Breach Forum). This is not an isolated case, many cybercriminals offer this type of information for sale – usually used for scams, phishing and other types of fraud.
Starting with a post that talked about a million numbers in the Philippines, the researchers contacted one of the sellers, asking if he also had data on Italian numbers. The answer was yes: he had it available fifty million numbers, almost the entire Whatsapp user base in our country. Of these, twenty million were associated with their respective names.
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The correlation between names and phone numbers opens the possibility to more dangerous scenarios than simple phone scams, making it possible to trace the contacts of politicians, journalists and activists. The price that the seller has communicated to Red Hot Cyber and of 500 thousand euros for the whole package of twenty million records.
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