VK Phone 2025

In March 2025 details of approximately 7.7 million VKontakte profiles were exposed through automated data scraping techniques. The incident involved the collection of public profile identifiers linked to private mobile phone numbers. This type of parsing attack typically exploits vulnerabilities in friend synchronization features or search functions to map user accounts to specific contact numbers. The resulting dataset poses risks for targeted phishing and social engineering attacks against users of the platform.