A French security researcher, Wassime Bouimadaghene, has discovered a critical vulnerability in Grindr, which enables hackers to easily highjack users accounts by using the victim's email. The vulnerability takes advantage of the 'forgotten password' feature on the app. This token allows hackers to easily change the password of an account and highjack it. This method is “one of the most basic account takeover techniques” according to one of the researchers who discovered the vulnerability. Wassime...
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