Twitter Android app bug matched millions of phone numbers to accounts

Twitter may not have been dragged into major privacy and political scandals the way Facebook has been but it has its fair share of headaches...

Twitter may not have been dragged into major privacy and political scandals the way Facebook has been but it has its fair share of headaches. Most of these stem from technical problems, a.k.a. bugs, that leak users’ information when they shouldn’t. The latest seems to be an almost simple flaw that could match phone numbers to users by simply uploading … Continue reading

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