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2011 MegaFon — 8K SMS messages exposed

2011 8.0K records affected Share on X

Data compromised

SMS messages, phone numbers

Technical writeup

~8,000 customers' SMS messages with phone numbers and dates became publicly accessible, indexed by Yandex. MegaFon blamed technical glitch with external website administrator; robots.txt misconfiguration. Fined 30,000 rubles.

Root cause

Misconfiguration; robots.txt removed

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