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IMO: I'm pretty sure this is less of an auth issue, than it is a rate limiting issue.

I haven't been able to find anything about the endpoint, but based on the data exposed[0] I think the endpoint they are talking about is the register one which requires a phone number.

I'd bet they didn't rate limit it, and someone just blasted through all phone numbers with it and stored the data for ones that didn't error out.

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The CSV data columns:

account_id

phone_number

device_lock

account_status

device_count



So it's wardialing via the API then.




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