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#phonenumbers — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #phonenumbers, aggregated by home.social.

  1. MIT Technology Review: AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers. “In March, a software developer in Israel was contacted on WhatsApp after Google’s chatbot Gemini provided incorrect customer service instructions that included his number. And in April, a PhD candidate at the University of Washington was messing around on Gemini and got it to cough up her colleague’s personal […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/14/mit-technology-review-ai-chatbots-are-giving-out-peoples-real-phone-numbers/
  2. #PaneraBread #DataBreach

    What Happened
    In January 2026, PANERA BREAD suffered a data breach that exposed 14M records. After an attempted #extortion failed, the attackers published the data publicly, which included 5.1M unique #emailaddresses along with associated account information such as names, #phonenumbers and physical #addresses. Panera Bread subsequently confirmed that "the #data involved is contact information" and that authorities were notified.

    haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Pane

  3. @anarchopunk_girl @fla @Mer__edith

    After all, @signalapp does in fact comply with demands of the U.S. government and restricts 's functionality based of "striclty unnecessary" data like !

    Whereas @torproject is specifically designed to be incapable of doing so, even if all their maintainers were simultaneously held at gunpoint.

    Cuz that's basic to the point that every small / in Germany has to get that in place!

  4. @anarchopunk_girl @fla @Mer__edith

    After all, @signalapp does in fact comply with #Cyberfacist demands of the U.S. government and restricts #Signal's functionality based of "striclty unnecessary" data like #PhoneNumbers!

    Whereas @torproject is specifically designed to be incapable of doing so, even if all their maintainers were simultaneously held at gunpoint.

    Cuz that's basic #OpSec to the point that every small #FinTech / #PaymentProcessor in Germany has to get that #contingency in place!

  5. @anarchopunk_girl @fla @Mer__edith

    After all, @signalapp does in fact comply with #Cyberfacist demands of the U.S. government and restricts #Signal's functionality based of "striclty unnecessary" data like #PhoneNumbers!

    Whereas @torproject is specifically designed to be incapable of doing so, even if all their maintainers were simultaneously held at gunpoint.

    Cuz that's basic #OpSec to the point that every small #FinTech / #PaymentProcessor in Germany has to get that #contingency in place!