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Google bug let strangers find your phone number with just your Gmail address

Ellsworth Toohey
Jun 09, 2025
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A new vulnerability discovered by security researcher, brutecat, allowed attackers to bruteforce the phone numbers of Google users with minimal effort.

This newly disclosed vulnerability, reported on June 9, 2025, exposed a flaw in Google's account recovery system. By exploiting a weakness in Google's non-JavaScript account recovery for…

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