Thousands of SMS messages sent from the site of “Megaphone” – one of the largest mobile operators in Russia – were made publicly available through a search engine “Yandex”. It is reported today, July 19, “Echo of Moscow to St. Petersburg.” Correspondence subscribers and their numbers became public. The company explained that a technical fault crashes.
According to the press service of OJSC “MegaFon” in the interaction site operator and Internet service there was a technical failure Yandex, which resulted in a searchable database Yandex has got a number of posts yet, sent through the website “MegaFon”. The problem was localized technical expertise and quickly resolved.
The press service stressed that “failure is not affected clients SMS-messages sent through phones and other mobile devices. For comparison, the issue has touched some 8,000 messages – at the same time every hour through the network” MegaFon “is about 2 million of SMS-messages and they are all protected. “
Roskomnadzor Russia sees in the actions of OJSC “MegaFon”, prevent the emergence of the texts of SMS-messages to the public domain, violating the legislation on the connection. In addition, as reported by radio, the agency examines the situation for violations of the law on personal data.
“The advent of free access to the Internet SMS-messages of individual mobile users show signs of violation of the law” On communication “,” Rules of providing communications services, “and, consequently, the licensing conditions,” – said a spokesman Mikhail Vorobyov Roskomnadzora.
According to Vorobiev, “for violation of licensing conditions provides for administrative responsibility.”
