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T-Mobile customers in the UK started getting phone call from other carriers when their contracts were nearing an end. How did the third-party companies know? It turns out that someone sold millions of company records to brokers, a charge recently confirmed by T-Mobile itself–though the company denied prior knowledge.

Asked by the BBC to respond, a spokesman for the company called the action “deeply” regrettable,” adding, “When it became apparent that contract renewal information was being passed on to third parties without our knowledge, we alerted the Information Commissioner’s Office.”

The company insists that it is working with that office to identify the source of the leak.