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WeChat isn’t the only app to have troubles in the last few days as Tango can also be thrown in the mix. Where WeChat‘s issue was a major outage, however, Tango‘s problem was much more serious: the website was hacked. Worse still, 1.5TB of user information may have been compromised in the attack according to early reports.

Records of local users had been seized by the hackers

The attack was apparently conducted by the Syrian Electronic Army. Syrian state television also announced the Tango hacking, indicating records of local users had been seized by the hackers, according to the Associated Press.

The group made the following posting to its website on Friday:

The Syrian Electronic Army hacked the Tango app (video/text messages service) website and database

The databases content a of millions of the app users phone numbers and contacts and their emails

More than 1.5 TB of the daily-backups of the servers network has been downloaded successfully

Much of the information in the databases that were downloaded will be delivered to the Syrian government

In addition, the group also made the following posting on Twitter:
Tango Hack, App Hacks, VoIP Hacked

Tango confirmed the breach in their official Twitter account: “Tango experienced a cyber intrusion that resulted in unauthorized access to some data. We are working on increasing our security systems.”

It was denied, however, that any sensitive information or social media passwords for Tango users were obtained by the hackers: “It is false information that attackers were able to access our users’ Facebook, Twitter, or any other social media passwords.” Still, it’s always a good idea to change your passwords periodically regardless of whether information was stolen or not. We’ll post any further information as it is obtained.

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By Josh Robert Nay

Josh Robert Nay is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TruTower. He has worked in the telecommunications industry since 2003 and specializes in GSM based technology. He also uses (too many) VoIP apps and is a long-time user of BlackBerry, Android, and Windows Phone. He adores anything having to do with space exploration and writing. In addition to the links below, he can be found on LinkedIn and can also be found on his website at http://www.joshrobertnay.com.