The leaked text message data included phone numbers, university finance applications, job alerts and other private information.
A database housing millions of private SMS text messages was left open online for an extended period of time, a team of researchers at the online privacy company vpnMentor said Sunday. The Texas-based text messaging firm TrueDialog is thought to be responsible for the leak, the cybersecurity experts said.
The researchers warn that"millions of Americans are at risk." The team was able to access the text messages because the logs were"completely unsecured and unencrypted," the team said in a blog post. "We contacted the company. We disclosed our findings and offered our expertise in helping them close the data leak and ensure nobody was exposed to risk," the researchers said."The database has since been closed, but TrueDialog never replied to us." The text message data in question was also examined by TechCrunch, which said the database contained detailed logs of messages sent by customers who used TrueDialog’s system.
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