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Privacy leak of unlisted names with unique surnames in indexes

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The indexes under https://www.wikitree.com/indexes/person/ leak the full names of unlisted profiles when there is only one profile with a given surname, and that profile is unlisted.

in WikiTree Tech by Nathan Kennedy G2G6 Mach 3 (39.5k points)
reshown by Jamie Nelson
This has been fixed, thanks for reporting it!
by Jamie Nelson G2G6 Pilot (627k points)

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Thank you, Nathan. We are investigating this now.

Chris
by Chris Whitten G2G Astronaut (1.5m points)

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