Hacking Google Support: Leaking call logs and deanonymising agents

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Hacking Google Support: Leaking millions of customer records ($14k bounty) | Michael Dalton Hacking Google Support: Leaking millions of customer records ($14k bounty) Leaking millions of call logs and deanonymising agents ; this is the story of how I found my first vulnerability in Google. This issue leaked private customer data (including phone numbers) and agent information for all cases in Google's internal support systems. This vulnerability was responsibly disclosed to Google's Vulnerability Rewards Program , and has since been fixed. Last year I was taking a look at the Google Support website, which, like most support sites, has a live chat widget . These sorts of pages are always quite fascinating to look at from a security perspective, since they inevitably integrate with separate internal tools used by support agents. Security vulnerabilities are just nasty edge cases , and support systems are often rife with such edge cases. I was very curious how this live chat worked under the hood, so of course I popped open DevTools to see for myself. It's fun to see how things work, and you always need to be able build things in order to subsequently to break them. This chat widget was particularly interesting as it was hosted in an embedded