Check if your WhatsApp number is among the 500 million filtered

A site allows you to check if your number is affected and how to avoid being captured by others.

A database stolen by hackers has affected almost 500 million users worldwide. Inside it was millions of WhatsApp numbers and emails. If you are one of those still unsure that their information has been leaked, this page may interest you. This is the Cybernews website. This portal claims that its tester has a 500 GB database of leaked emails.

Secure your WhatsApp Details

If you want to verify if your data has been filtered, you must enter the website of the portal and perform the following three steps:

1. Enter your email address or phone number in the search box.
2. Select 'Check Now.
3. Look at the results.

The search result will show if your email or phone number is hacked. If it is not, the page will inform you to take precautions to avoid hacking.

How to protect your WhatsApp account?

Secure WhatsApp with Two-Step Verification

If you want to add an extra layer of security to your WhatsApp account, with two-step verification, you make sure that no one can register your phone number in another account, even if they managed to use methods to receive the verification code. To activate two-step verification, tap on the WhatsApp menu button and choose Settings.

You should go to the first option on the list, Account. After all, that's what 2-Step Verification protects, your account. Remember that this does not protect your chats, as anyone with physical access to your mobile, if unlocked, will be able to open WhatsApp and read their messages.

In the account options, tap on Two-Step Verification. Other messaging apps, like Signal, call this registration lock PIN protection, a name that makes a bit more sense.

The danger that our phone number is circulating on the internet and that it is identified as being used on WhatsApp is that someone could use one of the multiple strategies that exist to take control of those accounts and impersonate us, ask for money in our name to contacts, etc.

The way to avoid this is very simple: it consists of activating double authentication, which involves adding a second 6-digit password, known only to the user, to the automatic SMS code that WhatsApp sends when activated on a new phone.