About 280,000 Armenian users` phone data was leaked on network

ArmInfo. About 280,000 Armenian users' phone data was leaked on the network. This was reported by  Armenian cyber security expert Samvel Martirosyan.

"A large database of telephone numbers has leaked onto the network.  It contains data of about 280,000 Armenians. Most likely, this is the  Getcontact database. What I have been warning about for so many  years. There are numbers of many people, where their affiliation with  the special services is clearly visible, since one of their friends  indicated this in their contacts. We are working against the national  security of the nation. Congratulations once again," Martirosyan  wrote on his Facebook page.

According to another Facebook user Levon Isajanyan, an unknown person  has put up for sale a lot containing 10 million contact details of  representatives from different countries.

"The current check that I have conducted shows that the lot contains  about 277,000 numbers that belong to mobile codes of Armenia. This  probably refers to a pattern similar to the functioning scheme of the  get contact application [not confirmed].

Mobile operators are definitely not the cause of this leak. This is  already happening due to the lack of digital security hygiene of  people," Isajanyan noted, calling for not giving certain applications  access to their contacts when downloading them.