Android users who thought they fat-fingered a text message to the wrong person may be able to lay the blame with Google developers. Android users who thought they fat-fingered a text message to the wrong person may be able to lay the blame with Google developers.The company acknowledged on Thursday long-running complaints that text messages occasionally would be sent to the wrong person due to a bug in the operating system. Google also said it found a second problem, but will deploy fixes for both soon.”Some users have reported that their SMS messages are being delivered to the wrong people,” wrote Android project member Nick Kralevich in a comment on a bug report for the issue. “It took us some time to reproduce this issue, as it appears that it’s only occurring very rarely. Even so, we’ve now managed to both reproduce it and develop a fix that we will deploy.”The bug report was filed in June as issue 9392 on Google’s Android project pages, but comments on it suddenly proliferated earlier this week.Some commenters on the forum felt that a just a few people were repeatedly complaining about the bug and accused them of “trolling,” or slamming the forum with repetitive, obnoxious comments. Google said it will also fix a second issue it discovered, in which in rare instances users see a different message in the Messaging application than the one they tried to open.“We don’t believe this issue is affecting many users, but we’ve developed a fix that we’re preparing to deploy,” Kralevich wrote. “Of course, double-checking the displayed message before hitting ‘Send’ will prevent any messages from being sent to the wrong recipients. We’ve found in testing this issue, it is more likely to occur if you tap on a message before the Messaging app is fully loaded, so we recommend waiting for all the elements to load before clicking on the message you want to display.” Send news tips and comments to jeremy_kirk@idg.com Related content brandpost How an integrated platform approach improves OT security By Richard Springer Sep 26, 2023 5 mins Security news Teachers urged to enter schoolgirls into UK’s flagship cybersecurity contest CyberFirst Girls aims to introduce girls to cybersecurity, increase diversity, and address the much-maligned skills shortage in the sector. By Michael Hill Sep 26, 2023 4 mins Back to School Education Industry IT Training news CREST, IASME to deliver UK NCSC’s Cyber Incident Exercising scheme CIE scheme aims to help organisations find quality service providers that can advise and support them in practising cyber incident response plans. By Michael Hill Sep 26, 2023 3 mins IT Governance Frameworks Incident Response Data and Information Security news Baffle releases encryption solution to secure data for generative AI Solution uses the advanced encryption standard algorithm to encrypt sensitive data throughout the generative AI pipeline. By Michael Hill Sep 26, 2023 3 mins Encryption Generative AI Data and Information Security Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe