{"id":17497,"date":"2021-01-19T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howk.de\/w1\/whatsapp-is-leaking-user-phone-numbers-in-google-searches-and-customizable-verification-codes\/"},"modified":"2021-01-19T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T09:00:05","slug":"whatsapp-is-leaking-user-phone-numbers-in-google-searches-and-customizable-verification-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howk.de\/?p=17497","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp Is Leaking User Phone Numbers In Google Searches And Customizable Verification Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hothardware.com\/news\/whatsapp-leaking-phone-numbers-and-customizable-verification-codes\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hothardware.com\/ContentImages\/NewsItem\/54017\/thumbnail\/default\/whatsapp-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"WhatsApp Is Leaking User Phone Numbers In Google Searches And Customizable Verification Codes\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe crazy train that is WhatsApp right now does not look like it will be stopping any time soon. After the privacy policy fiasco, which is still developing, other issues have popped up simultaneously. It appears that Google is indexing a WhatsApp subdomain that can share users\u2019 phone numbers. Furthermore, there are also other issues with WhatsApp <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crazy train that is WhatsApp right now does not look like it will be stopping any time soon. After the privacy policy fiasco, which is still developing, other issues have popped up simultaneously. It appears that Google is indexing a WhatsApp subdomain that can share users\u2019 phone numbers. 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