Truecaller

Truecaller is a application that has features of caller-identification, call-blocking, flash-messaging, call-recording (on Android up to version 8), Chat & Voice by using the . It requires users to provide a standard cellular mobile number for registering with the service. The app is available for [2].

Truecaller is developed by True Software Scandinavia AB, a privately held company in , founded by Alan Mamedi and Nami Zarringhalam in 2009. and on 1 July 2009. It was released for and on 23 September 2009, for on 27 February 2012, for on 1 March 2012, and for on 3 September 2012.

As of September 2012 Truecaller had five million users database every month. As of January 2017 Truecaller had reached 250 million users worldwide. announced, fund led by former and Nokia executives (including ,1.3 million in Truecaller to push Truecaller’s global reach., and the ., alongside existing investor , Truecaller chairman Stefan Lennhammer, and an unnamed private investor. It also announced a partnership with to use Yelp's API data to help identify business numbers when they call a smartphone.'s investment firm and from .

In December 2019, Truecaller announced it plans to go public in an IPO on 2022. [18]

On 17 July 2013, Truecaller servers were allegedly hacked into by the . installation on the servers. On 18 July 2013, Truecaller issued a statement on its blog stating that their website was indeed hacked, but claiming that the attack did not disclose any passwords or credit card information.-based Ehraz Ahmed discovered a security flaw that exposed user data as well as system and location information. Truecaller confirmed this information and the bug was immediately fixed.

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