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A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers (www.wired.com)

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By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more.

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[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm guessing the next biggest example of this exact same flaw was when this happened on Facebook like 8 years ago. Who could possibly have seen this coming?

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Anyone with an ounce of security knowledge and understanding