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In 2010, Google Voice was launched, giving users a free virtual number that could send and receive texts and phone calls, plus help people with multiple phones simplify their lives. If you’re a Google ...

Google has fixed a security vulnerability in its page for recovering account details that allowed anyone to access the page and brute-force the private phone number of any user. The flaw posed a ...

A security researcher has discovered a bug that could be exploited to reveal the private recovery phone number of almost any Google account without alerting its owner, potentially exposing users to ...