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Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019


From: "Oliver O'Boyle" <oliver.oboyle () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 13:30:46 -0500

We apologize for finally getting around to our job and doing what we were
paid to do...

On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 1:27 PM Matt Hoppes <
mattlists () rivervalleyinternet net> wrote:

“During an internal maintenance cycle last night, 168,149 previously
undelivered text messages were inadvertently sent to multiple mobile
operators’ subscribers," Syniverse said in a statement.


how do you inadvertently send messages that were supposed to be sent but
worked and sent? Isn’t that the desired outcome?

On Nov 8, 2019, at 12:54 PM, Brandon Svec <bsvec () teamonesolutions com>
wrote:

From:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/11/08/thousands-people-just-got-text-messages-sent-valentines-day/2527660001/

It seems there is a company that has everyone's text messages..

"Some mobile carriers rely on a third-party text platform called
Syniverse to relay messages. The vendor said in a statement that its IT
staff unknowingly caused the texts to be delivered this week."
-Brandon





On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 9:47 AM Brian J. Murrell <brian () interlinx bc ca>
wrote:

On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 22:42 +0000, Chris Kimball via NANOG wrote:
Does anyone have any more information on this?

Yeah, like who (in the private sector -- we all knew the NSA already
are doing this) has access to and is archiving *everyone*s text
messages?  And why?

Cheers,
b.



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