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Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info (www.theregister.com)
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[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

They probably meant 6 digit and it was a typo. The rest of the article references 6 digits. If it's just an integer (highly likely) it would go up to 10 digits or roughly 2 billion max users. My old coworkers and I used to joke that hitting INTEGER.MAX_VALUE for your customer ID is a good problem to have