Galaxy S9 and Note 8 users hit by shock bug that reveals private photos to random contacts
Reports of Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy Note 8 smartphones suffering a bug that sends private photos to contacts have been revealed.
The owners of the phones with the issue report that their private gallery photos were sent over text message to seemingly random contacts from their phone's address books.
The problem appears to lie in the Samsung default messaging app, Samsung Messages.
While some people suffered the problem with individual images being sent, some had their entire galleries sent over text message.
Samsung issued a statement saying: "Samsung has reviewed this matter thoroughly these past few days; however, there were no hardware or software issues found to be relevant to this particular case."
Despite that response the company did go on to say: "We are aware of the reports regarding this matter and our technical teams are looking into it. Concerned customers are encouraged to contact us directly."