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O2 UK Sends Users’ Numbers to Visited Web Sites

Mobile phone carrier O2 UK has been found to send users’ mobile numbers to all of the websites they are visiting on their handsets. There are millions of users on O2’s mobile network, and all of their numbers are delivered to web sites when they access the web from their mobile devices. Lewis Peckove...

25 January 2012
06:46 GMT

‘Mobile Phone Numbers Go Public This Month’ Scam

Social media websites and inboxes are flooded these days with a message that claims mobile phone numbers will be released to telemarketing companies and the incoming call individuals receive from them will be charged. The message provided by Hoax Slayer reads: Cell Phone Numbers Go Public this month. REMINDER..... ...

2 December 2011
08:30 GMT

Facebook Phone Contacts Scare Serves as Privacy Reminder for Social Gamers

Several erroneous reports about Facebook publicly sharing people's phone numbers have recently surfaced and have helped remind social gamers that they might be sharing their info with unknown individuals.Some users have recently discovered that by going to 'Account' -> 'Edit friends' -&#...

16 August 2011
00:21 GMT

Telstra Leaked Customer Names and Phone Numbers via Mail

Telstra, the bigest telecommunications services provider in Australia, has misdelivered over two hundred thousand letters containing customer names and telephone numbers.The mail out was intended to inform customers about upcoming changes to the fixed line prices, but around 220,000 letters out of 2.3 million, ended ...

29 October 2010
09:48 GMT

Dutch News Agency Exposes VIP Phone Numbers

Security experts from technology website Tweakers exposed Dutch local news agency GPD for having poor database, user and password management after having accessed the latter’s database. After a 24-hour warning, Tweakers made the vulnerability public and leaked information on how to access GPD's VIP phone n...

14 August 2009
09:03 GMT

Google Voice Ready to Get Airborne

Google is getting closer and closer to launching its new service, Google Voice, as it already started sending invitations to users who signed up on a waiting list for the Net-augmented telephone service. The service hasn't yet been released publicly, but it seems that it shouldn't be too long before the com...

27 June 2009
07:03 GMT

Google Voice Is Getting Ready to Kick Off

It seems that Google is getting ready to launch the long-anticipated Google Voice service, as the company reserved one million phone numbers with Level 3 last month. The service, as many of you might already know, is meant to offer users the possibility to use a single number across multiple devices. For the time b...

22 June 2009
11:02 GMT

Google Voice to Allow Number Porting in the Future

It seems that Google has big plans when it comes to the mobile phone market and its mobile services. As many of you might already know, the company has recently relaunched GrandCentral under a new name and with a new face, Google Voice. According to the latest news on the Web, the service would be able to change the ...

28 March 2009
06:09 GMT

Possible Full Access to Britons' Internet and Public Network Phone Info

The British Government wants all necessary information in order to track the activity of all Internet users in the country. This means that authorities would know, at any time, the content, place and time of any given chat conversation. Also, state officials would have access to details about the equipment used to na...

14 August 2008
07:20 GMT

Now You'll Never Have to Change Your Phone Number

The Phone Number Bank (PNB) service will expand to 80 more markets across the US. This will make it possible for even more people to have the chance of keeping their current phone number even if they change addresses.Up to this point, phone numbers never really belonged to their users, but were only automatically gen...

22 August 2007
06:00 GMT

Calling Paris, Wrong Number

Shira Barlow... the name doesn't ring a bell, right? But her phone sure has been ringing like crazy since she's got Paris Hilton's old phone number. How on Earth did this happen?Well, the story begins on this year's Valentine's Day, when UCLA student Shira was in a West Hollywood bathroom sta...

9 July 2007
04:03 GMT


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