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O2 admits security hole sent customers' phone numbers to sites
By
Shona Ghosh
Thu Jan 26 2012, 08:52 AM
UK mobile operator O2 has admitted that it sends customers’ phone numbers to websites that offer restricted material or premium-rate billing without their consent. The security hole was found after a programmer created some code that allowed subscribers to check whether their number was being pushed to sites they visited on their mobile browsers via 3G. After complaints online, the operator admitted to the hole and fixed the issue.
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