Text messages go public in Russia after glitch

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By Indo Asian News Service | Updated: 15 June 2012 13:23 IST
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  • Thousands of mobile phone text messages went public in Russia after an error occurred at one of the country's top mobile operators.
Thousands of mobile phone text messages went public in Russia after an error occurred at one of the country's top mobile operators.

About 8,000 text messages - complete with their telephone numbers - were detected by a search engine after being sent from Megafon's website.

Megafon, which has 57 million customers across Russia, said that the mass leak occurred because of a technical glitch with the site's external administrator.

Russia's Investigative Committee was looking into the incident.
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