![]() ![]() The Truecaller website was pulled offline for a while but is operational now. The hackers also claim to have data of over a million users with their Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Gmail accounts. The hackers also tweeted a screen shot of the database and posted the login credentials for the site’s database on Twitter. We still don’t know exactly how many accounts were breached. That number has probably more than doubled now. In March, the company had said that it had over 1 million users from India. ![]() ![]() Last month, Truecaller announced that it had more than 20 million users worldwide who were conducting over half a billion name and number searches each month. The Truecaller statement confirming the attack is below. We have sent an email to Truecaller for some clarification on the news and will update this post as soon as we hear from them. The website claims that the hackers were able to exploit a hole in the service since it was using an outdated version of blogging software WordPress for its web interface. The hackers have managed to get their hands on a number of databases including the main database that represents 450GB of data, E Hacking News reports. The Syrian Electronic Army has claimed to have hacked Truecaller, a collaborative phone directory, exposing millions of phone records majority of which is from India. ![]()
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