TapTechNews August 14th news, recently there have been media reports that after the hacker named Fenice leaked the social security information of 2.7 billion US users (previously known as 2.9 billion) on the dark web forum on August 6, he posted again and disclosed that he has the account information of 1.4 billion Tencent users. The hacker claims to have stolen a massive database, including 1.4 billion records related to Tencent.com, with a compressed data capacity of 44GB, and it will reach 500GB after decompression.
In response to this matter, the QQ Security Center responded today that in the past two years, similar false information has been repeatedly hyped up by overseas hackers many times, and the data caliber has also continued to expand, with multiple versions such as 700 million, 1.2 billion, and 1.4 billion, and has also been maliciously associated with many domestic Internet products. The above information is not true, but actually the black industry pieced together and watered down using historical data, which is extremely misleading to the public.
According to TapTechNews' previous report, the financial data of Tencent Holdings in the first quarter of this year shows that as of March 31, 2024, the combined monthly active accounts of WeChat and WeChat were 1.359 billion, an increase of 3% year-on-year; the monthly active accounts of QQ mobile terminals were 553 million, a decrease of 7% year-on-year.