This happened again
with twitter in this year. A security specialist asserts that he had the option
to coordinate 17 million telephone numbers to real Twitter accounts, uncovering
the imperfections of Twitter's Android versatile application. He claimed that
the bug just exists on Android applications.
Ibrahim Balic, a security analyst, revealed to TechCrunch
that he had the option to transfer a huge rundown of cell phone numbers
utilizing the contacts transfer highlight on Twitter's Android application. At
the point when clients transfer a telephone number, Twitter gets applicable
coordinating client information.
Balic clarified that Twitter doesn't enable clients to
transfer list of telephone numbers in a sequential way. So he worked around the
requirement by creating more than two billion cell phone numbers and afterward
arranged them in random order. He at that point transferred the complete list
to Twitter by means of the Android
application. The security analyst claims he had the option to coordinate cell
phone numbers from clients in a few nations including Iran, Israel, Greece,
Armenia, France, Germany, and others.
TechCrunch has verified few sample numbers by using the
site’s password reset feature.
Twitter spokesperson admitted that they suspended the
accounts used to inappropriately access people’s personal information upon
learning of this bug.
