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IN A DISTURBING DEVELOPMENT for anyone with photos on their phone and the phone number of their boss, the world's largest smartphone maker is investigating its phones that have started sending private photos to random contacts .
Unprecedented misconduct reports emerged on the Reddit and Samsung help forums this week, with a man claiming that his entire photo gallery of at least 50 images had been sent to his little friend while he slept.
The photo gallery being transferred to its partner's number, although its provider recorded the action.
The apparent bug would have affected one of Samsung's new smartphones, the Galaxy S9 + and S9, as well as the Note 8, released last year
A spokeswoman for Samsung Australia confirmed that the company was investigating the problem but had not yet verified if it was a bug and if the Australians could be affected
"We know the reports regarding this case and our teams techniques. "
" We do not know any customers in Australia who experienced this problem. "
In another potentially embarrbading case, a Samsung Note 8 user reported that his scheduled text messages had been sent to the wrong recipients
The convenience stores have speculated that the problem, first reported by Gizmodo, may have been caused by an update of Samsung 's smartphone settings and application messages. the users t recommended to change the default SMS service of phones to avoid being faulted by the bug, instead using the Android messages and revoking the permission of Samsung Messages to access the media.
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