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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.
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http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=Instagram
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.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=Instagram