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Greetings Sinisterly,

Irrespective of security measures In place, vulnerabilities continue to exist In all entities.

Google's Gmail service contains a suspected security vulnerability that could be exploited by hackers and email scammers to compromise Netflix accounts and steal sensitive user information, a web developer has claimed.

In this case, I personally believe It's more so a poor configuration In both Gmail & Netflix for the following reasons.

Gmail:

The issue takes advantage of the fact Google has a “dots don’t matter” policy in how it processes email addresses. For example, it views “johnsmith@gmail” as being identical to “j.o.h.n.smith@Gmail.” To Netflix, on the other hand, both of those email addresses would be assigned to different accounts on its platform.

Netflix:

Netflix does not require users to verify their email addresses when they sign up

If both Gmail & Netflix were not configured as such, the vulnerability would not exist.

Source.