Millions of Phone Texts <br />Have May Been Leaked Online.<br />News of the leak came from a team at online privacy company vpnMentor this past weekend.<br />According to vpnMentor, millions of private SMS text messages in a database were exposed.<br />In terms of whose responsible, it adds <br />that text messaging firm TrueDialog <br />could be the culprit.<br />Globally, over five billion subscribers have connections to the <br />Texas-based company.<br />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, vpnMentor researchers, <br />via blog post.<br />vpnMentor adds that TrueDialog <br />did not respond to its offer and <br />that the database is now closed.<br />Exposed information could include private information such as phone numbers and finance applications.<br />The impact of this data leak can have a lasting impression for hundreds of millions of users. The available information can be sold to both marketers and spammers, vpnMentor researchers, <br />via blog post
