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WhatsApp Data Breach: 487 Million User Phone Numbers!
According to a Cybernews report, it has been alleged on a hacking community forum that 487 million WhatsApp user phone numbers from 84 countries, including the UK, are for sale online as part of a database which may have come from a breach. It’s been reported that the UK dataset contains the phone numbers of 11 million users and is being sold for a per-capita sum of $2,500.
The advice is, if you need to check whether your number or email has been stolen in a breach, use a site like https://haveibeenpwned.com/ . To make accounts more secure, choose strong passwords, don’t share them between accounts, use 2FA where possible, and use a good authenticator app.
Tech Tip – Share Any Web Page With a QR Code
If you’d like a quick way to share a page from any website, Google Chrome gives you the option to share a QR code for any page. Here’s how it works:
- After making sure that your Google Chrome browser is updated to the latest version, go to the page on any website that you want to share.
- In the address bar, top right, find the ‘share this page’ symbol (an arrow in a box) and click on it.
- Choose ‘Create QR Code’.
- Either copy the QR link code, click ‘Download’ to download the QR code, or scan the on-screen QR code with another device's camera.
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