Hacked for 5 years without knowing? Seriously?

[NviGate Systems]

Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hacked for five years

Syniverse hasn't revealed whether text messages were exposed.

arstechnica.com

Crazy

 

[Markverhyden]

Syniverse's importance in SMS was highlighted in November 2019 when a server failure caused over 168,000 messages to be delivered nearly nine months late. The messages were in a queue and left undelivered when a server failed on February 14, 2019, and finally reached their recipients in November when the server was reactivated.

Sounds like they have a problem with attention to detail.

 

[rhsiv]

We all just trust services like this... and mostly don't even know that/if we are using them, and assume them to be safe. It's always fun to learn about another service we should be skeptical of!

 

[HCHTech]

At this point I think the default position for any service should be "Skeptical until proven otherwise".