Personal information of more than 500 million Weibo users has been found for sale on the dark web. Names, usernames, gender, location, and phone numbers of 172 million users have been stolen. Bad actor claiming to have breached the famous Chinese social network last year posted ads touting the stolen goods. Weibo denies any security incident, but admits that some users were exploiting a built-in API to match Weibo accounts with linked phone numbers and then sell them online. The social media platform also claims that one-way encryption is used, and no user passwords are stored in plain text.”]