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Instagram Website Leaked Phone Numbers and Emails for Months, Researcher Says

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday May 23 2019, @08:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the so-many-leaks-so-little-time dept.

martyb writes:

Instagram Website Leaked Phone Numbers and Emails for Months, Researcher Says:

Instagram's website leaked user contact information, including phone numbers and email addresses, over a period of at least four months, a researcher says.

The source code for some Instagram user profiles included the account holder's contact information whenever it loaded in a web browser, says David Stier, a data scientist and business consultant, who notified Instagram shortly after he discovered the problem earlier this year. The contact information wasn't displayed on the account holder's profiles on the desktop version of the Instagram website, although it was used by the photo-sharing site's app for communication. It isn't clear why the information was included in the website's source code.

The exposure appeared to include contact information for thousands of accounts, which belonged to private individuals -- some of whom were minors -- along with businesses and brands, Stier said. Including the information in the source code could let hackers scrape the data from the Instagram website, allowing them to assemble a virtual phone book that lists the contact details of thousands of Instagram users.

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  • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Thursday May 23 2019, @01:41PM (3 children)

    by RS3 (6367) on Thursday May 23 2019, @01:41PM (#846636)

    So now his emails and phone numbers are leaked.

    Months is gender-neutral, you ignorant gender-assumer.

    But to answer your question: anywhere on the Dark Web of course.

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  • (Score: 1) by Chocolate on Thursday May 23 2019, @03:15PM (2 children)

    by Chocolate (8044) on Thursday May 23 2019, @03:15PM (#846661) Journal

    It does say 'four months' so meybe a mix?
    April, May, June, August?

    3 girls and a guy right there.

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    Bit-choco-coin anyone?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 24 2019, @05:23AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 24 2019, @05:23AM (#846960)

      All months are girls and I have a calendar to prove it!