Facebook went on a whack-a-mole expedition patching a security vulnerability that exposed thousands of WhatsApp users' phone numbers with a fairly simple Google search. The Indian researcher who found this loophole is also crying foul for not being able to receive a bounty for his bug find.
In a Medium post on June 6, Athul Jayarum published his initial discoveries on a few domains that were indexed into Google search: https://wa.me and https://ift.tt/2vbXfSV.
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