On Friday, Jordan Wildon – a journalist for the German media outlet Deutsche Welle – warned the world that their WhatsApp groups “may not be as secure as you think they are.” A simple Google search could lead people to invite codes that would let them find and join private WhatsApp group chats, given that the pages were indexed by Google… …and somebody who filed a bug report about it revealed that both WhatsApp parent company Facebook and Google have known about this for months. Wildon said that any group link shared outside of secure, private messaging could be found relatively easily and joined.

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