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500 million Whatsapp users, including from India, at risk of data breach

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500 million Whatsapp users, including from India, at risk of data breach According to a Cybernews report, WhatsApp data from nearly half a billion users in 84 countries, including India, may have been compromised and sold online. According to the report, it investigated a data sample after a post on a "well-known hacking community forum" claimed to be selling an up-to-date database of 487 million WhatsApp users and discovered that the claim was most likely true, implying that 25% of the total 2 billion monthly active users worldwide could be at risk. Leaked phone numbers could be used for any number of reasons, including marketing and phishing. The report said more than 32 million of the leaked records were from users in the US, followed by the UK (11 million). The most affected nations include Egypt (45 million), Italy (35 million), Saudi Arabia (29 million), France (20 million), Turkey (20 million), and Russia (10 million). In India, the report added, more than 6 million Wh...

Twitter Free Bird or Caged by Elon Musk??

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  Twitter Free Bird or Caged by Elon Musk?? "The bird is freed," Musk said in a tweet after taking control of the social media platform. On late Thursday, Musk completed the $44 billion takeover on the eve of a court-appointed deadline to seal his on-again, off-again deal and immediately fired its Indian-origin CEO  Parag Agrawal , as well as the company's other top executives. Chief financial officer Ned Segal and legal affairs and policy chief Vijaya Gadde were also among those who were fired by Musk. "The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence,” Musk wrote, in an unusually-long message for the billionaire  Tesla  CEO who typically projects his thoughts in one-line tweets. He continued: "There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right-wing and far l...