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skry
@skry@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

"Vienna researchers retrieved all #WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history"

"...downloaded all 77 million profile pictures visible to everyone—a proud 3.8 terabytes in total. In a random sample of half a million images drawn from this, a facial recognition routine found a human face in two-thirds of cases."

https://www.heise.de/en/news/3-5-Billion-Accounts-Complete-WhatsApp-Directory-Retrieved-and-Evaluated-11083244.html

Paper: https://github.com/sbaresearch/whatsapp-census

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3.5 Billion Accounts: Complete WhatsApp Directory Retrieved and Evaluated

Vienna researchers retrieved all WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history—and it's worse than you might think.
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