Glitch Led to Thousands of Mysterious Midnight Text Messages
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A rash of mysterious phone text messages first reported by social media users early Thursday morning was due to a glitch with a third-party vendor that provides services to U.S. mobile phone operators.
“During an internal maintenance cycle last night, 168,149 previously undelivered text messages were inadvertently sent to multiple mobile operators’ subscribers,” Tampa, Florida-based communications company Syniverse said in an emailed statement to Bloomberg.