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WhatsApp data leak of 11 million M'sians from recycled old data leak, says NGO

By SYDI ALIF
30 Nov 2022 06:06pm
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SHAH ALAM - A probe by an NGO found that the data of more than 11.6 million Malaysian WhatsApp users being sold online was recycled from a much older Facebook data leak.

Yayasan Digital Malaysia (YDM), a non-profit that works to improve digital literacy said a forensic study showed 20 per cent out of 500 million leaked data claimed by hackers were from Facebook users worldwide.

A further cross-check showed out of that numbers 11,675,894 million numbers were on Facebook.

“We believe the issue of national cyber security is a major issue that needs to be highlighted and investigated and verified,” head of Digital Innovation of Malaysia Digital Foundation, Mohd Fazli Azran said in a media statement.

He said measures to curb the leak needs to be taken as it concerns national security.
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