WhatsApp data of 11.6 million Malaysians being sold online was recycled from old leak

The seller is charging a different price for each country – Mohd Fazli Azran, who had contacted the uploader, said the price for the Malaysian dataset is US$2,500 (RM11,200). — AFP

PETALING JAYA: An investigation by an NGO found that the data of more than 11.6 million Malaysian WhatsApp users being sold online was recycled from a much older Facebook data leak.

Yayasan Digital Malaysia (YDM), a non-profit that works to improve digital literacy, said that its research showed that the database came from a 2019 Facebook leak that has been trimmed down.