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
A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers
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A massive WhatsApp security flaw exposed the phone number of almost every user on the planet
– despite the fact that parent company Meta had been alerted to the vulnerability way back in 2017.
Security researchers were able to use what they described as a “simple” exploit to extract a total of 3.5 billion phone numbers from the messaging service …
The researchers say that if the same exploit had been used by bad actors, the result would have been “the largest data leak in …
Researchers demonstrated a major WhatsApp flaw that exposed 3.5B users' phone numbers, with 57% also showing a profile photo; Meta fixed the enumeration problem (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-simple-whatsapp-security-flaw-…
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