Twitter has disclosed a security incident involving the abuse of one of its official API features. Twitter admitted a flaw in its backend systems was exploited to discover the cellphone numbers of potentially millions of users en masse, which could lead to their de-anonymization through the exploitable API which has already been abused by systems in Iran, Israel and Malaysia.
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