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Nov 22 2025 WhatsApp API flaw let researchers scrape 3.5 billion accounts

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Researchers compiled a list of 3.5 billion WhatsApp mobile phone numbers and associated personal information by abusing a contact-discovery API that lacked rate limiting. [...]

Posted by Lawrence Abrams on Sat 22 November 2025 in BleepingComputer.

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