Researchers enumerated 3.5B WhatsApp phone numbers through the platform’s contact-discovery feature, revealing public profile photos and text for millions of users. Meta applied rate-limiting after the disclosure and says no non-public data was exposed.
This case raises important questions about phone numbers as identifiers and long-term privacy safeguards.
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