OnePlus 7 Pro owners get strange spam notifications on their phones CNET

OnePlus had a peculiar moment on Monday. 

Érika García / CNET

If you bought a odd OnePlus 7 Pro push notification on Monday, you're not by myself. Owners of the Chinese telephones rushed to Twitter to express their worries over a pair of garbled messages -- one in every of which regarded to be Chinese characters and other in the Latin alphabet.

Trying to observe the hyperlink apparently led to a "browser now not located" message. The problem is apparently simplest affecting the OnePlus 7 Pro, which came out in May.

"During an inner check, our OxygenOS team by chance despatched out a international push notification to a few OnePlus 7 Pro proprietors," the enterprise wrote in response.

Its group is investigating what occurred and the organisation promised to proportion more info "soon." 

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OxygenOS is a customized version of Android developed by means of OnePlus and the abnormal notification caused some people to fear about the safety of their information, paying homage to a2019 incident in which a safety researcher located that personal statistics become being despatched to OnePlus servers. 

It responded by explaining how people ought to choose out of data series and promised to prevent accumulating records like "phone numbers, MAC addresses and Wi-Fi records."

First posted at 2:46 a.M. PT.
Updated at 3:23 a.M. PT: Adds greater element.

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