True Caller Has Been Hacked!!

TrueCaller has been hacked by
hacktivist group Syrian Electronic Army
(SEA). The hacking group announced
this in a post on Twitter, along with an
image that showed details of some users
of the app.

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.

TrueCaller app is available on Android,
iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and
Symbian platforms. 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. In June
this year, TrueCaller announced that its
user base has touched the 20-million
mark, representing growth of 100% in a
period of five months. It said that it has
1 million users in India in March.

The Syrian hacking collective revealed
that it exploited the TrueCaller website
as it is based on outdated Wordpress
platform, which gave them access to the
admin panel. Speaking to E Hacking
News, the SEA hackers said that they
have hacked into the phone directory's
servers and downloaded more than
seven databases. The biggest database
has data worth 450GB.