Did WhatsApp leak all of our phone numbers to a third-party website? This is what all of us have been asking for the last two days. But looks like finally we have an answer to this claim, and the recent reports have proved to be a crucial revealer. So, what’s the full story behind this WhatsApp number leak news? Let us find out.
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WhatsApp Number Leaks: WhatsApp Just Leaked Out 3.5 Billion Numbers?
As per recent reports from online media, the total user base of WhatsApp, which is around 3.5 billion, was recently leaked. Yes, all our numbers, all our contacts, were leaked. But is this due to WhatsApp’s biggest blunder? Or there is some other angle to this story.
Source: X
On 19 November, several media channels on Reddit and X exposed that WhatsApp has reportedly leaked around 3.5 billion mobile numbers to a third-party through data sharing. This meant that all our contacts and numbers had been leaked.
However, as soon as WhatsApp got to know this, it issued a clarification through the channel of Meta Bunty Bug.
The Truth: Meta Issues Clarification
WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, just issued a clarification on this buzzing news and cleared the air with solid and true information.
Here is what it quoted: “….there was no data leak or security flaw. These are results from an academic research WhatsApp collaborated on through our Bug Bounty programme to help identify and successfully mitigate potential gaps against novel enumeration/scraping methods.
No non-public data was accessible to the researchers, they securely deleted the data collated as part of the study, and we’ve found no evidence of adversarial abuse of this vector.”
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So, No WhatsApp Leak Has Happened! But Beware
As WhatsApp and Meta have issued official clarification, we can now be assured that all our contacts are safe, and we have not been part of any data breach. Still, with this news, one thing has been clear: do not use important, private, or very personal data for sharing on WhatsApp, it is very risky in these times of WhatsApp number leaks.
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