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Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k


What could've been the largest data breach in the world - an attack chain on Google services to leak the email address of any YouTube channel

< Back Some time ago, I was looking for a research target in Google and was digging through the Internal People API (Staging) discovery document until I noticed something interesting: Nathan made a test recording on his Pixel phone and synced it to his Google account so we could access the endpoints on the web at https://recorder.google.com:‎ 03/10/24 - Panel marks it as duplicate of existing-tracked bug, does botched patch of initial YouTube obfuscated Gaia ID disclosure 03/10/24 - Clarified to vendor that they haven't recognized Pixel recorder as vulnerability itself (since obfuscated Gaia IDs are leaked for Google Maps/Play reviewers) and provided vendor a work-around method to once again leak YouTube channel obfuscated Gaia IDs 05/11/24 - Panel awards $3,133.

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