19 July 2013

TrueCaller hacked, 1 million Indians’ data at risk

 ...Global phone directory app TrueCaller has been hacked by hacktivist groupSyrian Electronic Army (SEA).....

...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....

..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.....

...The Syrian hacking collective revealed that it exploited the TrueCallerwebsite as it is based on outdated Wordpress platform, which gave them access to the admin panel....
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