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 from SEA. But now the hackers of SEA have breached the security of the the world’s largest collaborative phone directory "True Caller"

As on there twitter accounts they wrote

“Sorry @Truecaller, we needed your database, thank you for it,” the hackers wrote on Twitter.

 As per the post of EHN, it is being stated that hackers have breached the True Caller security by exploiting a vulnerability in the company’s outdated WordPress site.
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.

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."

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 know the names of unknown callers.

How does it work?
TrueCaller claims to source the caller information present in their database partly from public directories, and partly from “crowdsourced” data.

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.

Removing your Number

1. Goto http://www.truecaller.com/unlist/
2. Choose your country and enter the phone number in the relevant fields
3. Type the captcha
4. Press “Unlist”

Then they say the number was unlisted permanently and it takes 24 hours for the changes to happen.