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Truecaller Hacked, 1 Million Indians’ Data At Risk by instinctg(m): 7:05am On Jul 19, 2013
Global phone directory app TrueCaller has been hacked by hacktivist groupSyrian Electronic Army (SEA). The hacking group announced this in a post on Twitter, along with an image that showed details of some users of the app.

Syrian Electronic Army broke the news via a tweet saying, "Sorry @TrueCaller, we needed your database, thank you for it." The hackers openly released TrueCaller's database host ID, username and password via another tweet.

TrueCaller app is available on Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Symbianplatforms. The app's databases have access codes to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Gmail accounts of millions of users globally. Reports say that TrueCaller website went down for a while but is now back online. In June this year, TrueCaller announced that its user base has touched the 20-million mark, representing growth of 100% in a period of five months. It said that it has 1 million users in India in March.

The Syrian hacking collective revealed that it exploited the TrueCallerwebsite as it is based on outdated Wordpress platform, which gave them access to the admin panel. Speaking to E Hacking News, the SEA hackers said that they have hacked into the phone directory's servers and downloaded more than seven databases. The biggest database has data worth 450GB.


Source : http://www.techgig.com/tech-news/editors-pick/TrueCaller-hacked-1-million-Indians-data-at-risk-18924
Re: Truecaller Hacked, 1 Million Indians’ Data At Risk by Nobody: 7:11am On Jul 19, 2013
instinctg: Global phone directory app TrueCaller has been hacked by hacktivist groupSyrian Electronic Army (SEA). The hacking group announced this in a post on Twitter, along with an image that showed details of some users of the app.

Syrian Electronic Army broke the news via a tweet saying, "Sorry @TrueCaller, we needed your database, thank you for it." The hackers openly released TrueCaller's database host ID, username and password via another tweet.

TrueCaller app is available on Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Symbianplatforms. The app's databases have access codes to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Gmail accounts of millions of users globally. Reports say that TrueCaller website went down for a while but is now back online. In June this year, TrueCaller announced that its user base has touched the 20-million mark, representing growth of 100% in a period of five months. It said that it has 1 million users in India in March.

The Syrian hacking collective revealed that it exploited the TrueCallerwebsite as it is based on outdated Wordpress platform, which gave them access to the admin panel. Speaking to E Hacking News, the SEA hackers said that they have hacked into the phone directory's servers and downloaded more than seven databases. The biggest database has data worth 450GB.


Source : http://www.techgig.com/tech-news/editors-pick/TrueCaller-hacked-1-million-Indians-data-at-risk-18924
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Re: Truecaller Hacked, 1 Million Indians’ Data At Risk by Omobarca: 7:41am On Jul 19, 2013
grin S̤̥̈̊ό̲̣̣̣̥ , who's next? Nairaland?
Re: Truecaller Hacked, 1 Million Indians’ Data At Risk by Slyr0x: 11:43am On Jul 19, 2013
[img]http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/photo/21144887.cms[/img]

This is very very very scary. . .

Every time a user downloads the truecaller app, it asks your permission to "securely send your phone book contacts to our servers".

When you grant this permission, the app harvests the phone's contact list which then becomes part of a publicly searchable database.

The app has about 1.6 million Indian users. Let's assume we have an average of 100 contacts per phone book, this means the truecaller company now owns a database of 50-80 million Indian phone numbers. shocked shocked . .Considering that the app has Nigerian users too, you can be rest assured that your phone number/name might be in their database too embarassed

Technology is very useful but it can also jeopardize your personal information if not protected. .

Any online data is always at risk of being hacked. This is the bitter truth of the internet age. .but then, do we because of this stop posting our information online?
Re: Truecaller Hacked, 1 Million Indians’ Data At Risk by Slyr0x: 11:51am On Jul 19, 2013
In addition, the title is a bit misleading. .shoulda been "Truecaller Hacked, User's Data At Risk" considering that the Truecaller app is not only being used in India but other countries too. .

The hackers claimed to have downloaded the following databases
truecaller_ugc(459GB), truecaller (100GB),truecaller_profiles( 4GB), truecaller_api(123KB), truecaller_PushMe(2.2KB), tc_admin(7MB), tc_wwwsad70MB)

Anyways, what do we have to fear? NSA's PRISM done did it grin grin
Re: Truecaller Hacked, 1 Million Indians’ Data At Risk by instinctg(m): 12:10am On Jul 20, 2013
Its true slyrox, d attack is going to have a chain reaction outside india. Besides, I never admired d TrueCaller app cos its more like a hack itself

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