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A security researcher was able to get the phone number linked to any Google account.
The issue has since been fixed, but at the time it presented a privacy issue in which even hackers could have brute forced their way to peoples’ personal information.
SIM swappers are hackers who take over a target's phone number in order to receive their calls and texts.
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