🚨‼️ WhatsApp leaks data of more than 3.5 billion users WhatsApp's entire member directory was freely accessible online. Austrian researchers downloaded all phone numbers and other profile data – including public keys – without any obstacles.
Read the research article: github.com/sbaresearch/wh…
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❗️The data shows India has the most WhatsApp users, with a global share of 22% and nearly 750 million users, followed by Indonesia and Brazil. The USA is fourth.
This is not true, there was no data leak. These are results from a study by researchers we’ve worked with under our Bug Bounty program to successfully mitigate a scraping issue. The researchers didn't ‘download’ any phone numbers—they generated possible number combinations and…
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I never liked whatsapp. Now I really don’t like it. “In our study, we were able to probe over a hundred million phone numbers per hour without encountering blocking or effective rate limiting.”
Massive exposure gap. The data was just sitting there, accessible. We see this pattern constantly - sensitive information exposed not through sophisticated attacks, but through lack of visibility into what's actually accessible. Whether it's WhatsApp's directory or checkout…
Meh
@grok The headline misrepresents the findings of this study. It is misleading to present this as a security flaw exposing phone numbers for several reasons: 1. The researchers did not "expose" or "obtain" 3.5 billion phone numbers. Instead, they generated possible number…
this database is missing the full "online now" history, it's like they didn't even try
But some genius there was preoccupied with keeping users from saving profile photos. 🙄
Still think you can make the Internet safe. Everyone in 1 system will lead to bigger hacks on a global scale. Stop before the industrial integrity you are building destroys everyone.
@johullrich - do you have a relative in Vienna who goes by the name of Johanna Ullrich who is also in IT and is working on IPV6?
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