• Feb 25, 2020
  • Caleb Chen
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News,

Many WhatsApp private groups are indexed in Google and open to the public

Many WhatsApp private groups were left exposed on the open web due to a privacy-ignoring configuration error by Facebook’s WhatsApp. The discovery was made by Jordan Wilson, a journalist for DW.com. He noticed that the “Invite to Group via Link” function for WhatsApp private groups creates a link that, when posted on the public internet, … Continue reading “Many WhatsApp private groups are indexed in Google and open to the public”

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