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

Fri Nov 8 18:30:46 UTC 2019

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 at 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 at 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 at 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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