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"All users can rest assured that their message history, contact lists, profile information, whom they'd blocked, and other personal data remain private and secure and were not affected."

I do not understand how you can re-register someone's account to a new phone and not have the data read. If it is re-registered successfully, then you should be able to login. If you can login, you can see the data...right?




The registration means "from now on, any messages sent to [phone number] will be delivered to this device", it's not logging into an account.


No, because a key is generated every time you reinstall/register in the app, and it sends along your contacts when you login (hashed). So there shouldn't be a way to see anything shared in the past .




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