Mobile numbers and emails of 400 million users are being sold on the Internet

In today's era, the Internet has become a market of personal data, where users are giving their personal data to different websites and this data is being leaked or hacked and is being sold on other websites on the Internet itself at the rate of thousands of rupees per month. To what extent is the data leaked, whether personal mobile numbers, emails of users are also being sold on the Internet and whether the data being sold includes mobile numbers and emails of big businessmen of the world including India along with common people. When our team investigated it, shocking results have come to the fore.

In an hour-long investigation in the Internet market, it came to light that a website is selling the data of more than 400 million alleged users of LinkedIn on the Internet at the rate of Rs 3,000 per month. These 400 million people include Tesla CEO and new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Twitter's current CEO Parag Agarwal, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Adobe's CEO Shantanu Narayan, Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos, Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal, Former PepsiCo CEO, Personal mobile numbers and emails of heads of many big multinational companies in the country and abroad including Prabhjit Singh, RPG Group Chairman Harsh Goenka, Mahindra Group chief Anand Mahindra were exposed. This was a never ending list in which there were big CEOs and businessmen from India and abroad.

 Now it was necessary to know whether the mobile numbers and emails being sold on this website are really genuine. In such a situation, our team called the mobile number of Ashutosh Gupta, the head of LinkedIn India, present on the website. Picked up the phone and on asking it came to know that the number was actually of Ashutosh Gupta. Even Ashutosh did not know that his number was available on the internet and was being sold.