Researcher brutecat finds a vulnerability that revealed the phone number linked to any Google account via brute forcing phone numbers; Google fixed the issue (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Researcher brutecat finds a vulnerability that revealed the phone number linked to any Google account via brute forcing phone numbers; Google fixed the issue  —  This article was produced with support from WIRED.  —  A cybersecurity researcher was able to figure out the phone number linked …