The best way for users to avoid such incidents is to limit the amount of information they share with any website or application. To conclude, regardless of its origin, the data can be used for a range of malicious purposes such as dedicated phishing campaigns and spamming users. Just like in a recent case where exclusively reported on a hacker selling 500 million Facebook user data from 82 countries.
One hint at what may have happened is that a vulnerable third party API could have scrapped Truecaller’s data without the firm knowing. "We believe that it is possible that some malicious users have been abusing their Truecaller account in contravention of our." Would you like to share more information based on your previous comment i.e. With that, we now have a situation where the origin of 2 database breaches is unknown. This, no doubt, does make sense with Cyble researchers also stating that the data appear to be originating from a 2019 breach which ironically was also attributed to Truecaller but the company rejected any database breach even back then. By doing that, it lends some credibility to the data and makes it easier for them to sell. It’s easy for bad actors to compile multiple phone number databases and put a Truecaller stamp on it. The data is currently available for sale for a sum of $1000 which equates to approximately INR 75000.Ĭommenting on why Truecaller believes that it has been targeted in this particular case, the firm said in a statement, What they have here is likely the same dataset as before.” “We were informed about a similar sale of data in May 2019. They elaborated on their reasoning stating that, However, in response, the company has stated there was no such breach and the records are being wrongly attributed to them. However, as for the recent one the database has been leaked by a hacker going by the online handle of “TooGod.” The data is well organized containing a range of sensitive records including but not limited to:
See: TrueCaller Phone Directory Hacked, Database with Millions of Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin & Gmail accounts dumped It is worth noting that TrueCaller has over 100 million active daily users in India and for the last couple of years an alleged TrueCaller database with data on Indian users has already been circulated on the Internet. One such case of the latter has been observed recently by researchers at Cyble when the data of 47.5 million Indian users was apparently leaked on the dark web allegedly originated from the famous caller-ID app, Truecaller. Sometimes, acknowledgments are made along with compensatory actions while sometimes, there is denial. Consequently, companies respond in a variety of ways. The data is being sold for $1,000 but Truecaller has denied the breach.
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