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Accidental WhatsApp account takeovers? It's a thing
Blame it on phone number recycling (yes, that's a thing, too)
The security hole stems from wireless carriers' practice of recycling former customers' phone numbers and giving them to new customers.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/21/accidental_whatsapp_account_takeover/
@ecksmc
That happened with my Google Voice number. Hadn’t used it for a while , now someone else has it and apparently all the text messages I sent using it as well