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Truecaller database hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

The hackers claim to have data of over a million users with their Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Gmail accounts.

- BGR India

The servers of Truecaller, a service that claims to be the world’s largest collaborative phone directory, seem to have been hacked by hackers representing Syrian Electronic Army. The hackers managed to get away with seven databases including the main database that represents 450GB of data, Ehacking News reports.

The hackers claim to have data of over a million users with their Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Gmail accounts. The extent of data theft is unknown at the moment.
Truecaller works by users agreeing to share their phonebook with the service that lets Truecaller display the name of the caller if it is not saved in the recipient’s phonebook.
It is unclear whether the phonebook database containing names, numbers and other contact details of non-users was accessible to hackers or not.
We have reached out to Truecaller for confirming the news and will update this post as soon as we hear from them.
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[shpak]

Not possible that this work of Syrian hackers.
In thir country now war with trained by USA terrorists and people in this country do not have big experience in this field.
This can do (pay for hack):
China or USA

 

[Musa_jutt]

may be but during the WAR in Iraq, their local hackers hack their drones... every thing is possible...

 

[shpak]

In Iraq it was Iraq people...Because they got some hardware...
And hacking web-site or Database and drones - different area of knowledge and work...

 

[Miss Alone]

 

[chief]

Truecaller can now tell you why the caller is calling before you pick up the call

Call Reason will help the recipients get more information about why the caller is trying to get in touch. It will give the consumers advance notice so they can make an informed decision.

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