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Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The True Caller Database

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Once again Syrian Electronic Army back on the news. After hacking the  major organisation twitter accounts there was no news for hacking from  SEA. But now the hackers of SEA have breached the security of the the  world’s largest collaborative phone directory "True Caller"<br /><br />As on there twitter accounts they wrote<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">“Sorry @Truecaller, we needed your database, thank you for it,” the hackers <a href="https://twitter.com/Official_SEA12/status/357298063167070211">wrote</a> on Twitter.</blockquote> As per the <a href="http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/07/truecaller-database-hacked-by-syrian.html">post of EHN</a>,  it is being stated that hackers have breached the True Caller  security by exploiting a vulnerability in the company’s outdated  WordPress site.<br />Hackers have stolen data from the 7 database, including the main data  base which is of size 450 GB.  The stolen data contains over 1 million  Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Gmail accounts.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxe4KCCN4Pp13HvfhcpMZ-V9kv0JYI0uATWml8vh_2pTAWPoa7NZn86q5Alm-eOEGvq1zn4BY_6FAHnlJj8RxJT6K0rOhKe-3_9CPIHdRj6ET6K13N2w1S-Lsejf0g5e_rOvQyOQVwjToJ/s1600/Syrian-electronic-army-hacked-truecaller-database.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxe4KCCN4Pp13HvfhcpMZ-V9kv0JYI0uATWml8vh_2pTAWPoa7NZn86q5Alm-eOEGvq1zn4BY_6FAHnlJj8RxJT6K0rOhKe-3_9CPIHdRj6ET6K13N2w1S-Lsejf0g5e_rOvQyOQVwjToJ/s640/Syrian-electronic-army-hacked-truecaller-database.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>True caller have not notified any kind of the announcement for this  incident, but they have shut the website down, with the message, "We are  doing some upgrades. Thank you for your patience." </div>

Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The True Caller Database

Once again Syrian Electronic Army back on the news. After hacking the major organisation twitter accounts there was no news for hacking fro...

Truecaller hack How to Unlist Your Number from TrueCaller

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'PT Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">TrueCaller is a mobile app and online service that serves as a very  large phonebook for reverse phone number lookups. It’s helping you let  know the names of unknown callers.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'PT Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><b>How does it work?</b><br />TrueCaller claims to source the  caller information present in their database partly from public  directories, and partly from “crowdsourced” data.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'PT Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">It looks like they scan and upload the entire phonebook to their  servers. So if you install their app, it will make a note of all your  contacts and upload them to the server.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'PT Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><b>Removing your Number</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'PT Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">1. Goto <a href="http://www.truecaller.com/unlist/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 102, 255, 0.498039); color: #183082; position: relative; text-decoration: none;">http://www.truecaller.com/unlist/</a><br />2. Choose your country and enter the phone number in the relevant fields<br />3. Type the captcha<br />4. Press “Unlist”</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'PT Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Then they say the number was unlisted permanently and it takes 24 hours for the changes to happen.</div></div>

Truecaller hack How to Unlist Your Number from TrueCaller

TrueCaller is a mobile app and online service that serves as a very large phonebook for reverse phone number lookups. It’s helping you let ...