O2 UK has quietly solved or at least mitigated a major security breach on Wednesday. Following a discovery by Lewis Peckover that O2 was sending mobile subscribers’ phone numbers in the clear through their web browser user agent, O2 claimed that it was cleared up. The company explained that it normally sent phone number information to “certain trusted partners” for age verifications and carrier billing, but this information had started going out to other sites by accident….
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O2 UK appears to fix flaw that sent phone numbers by web
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