Zamoskvoretskiy Moscow court is not satisfied the claim of the Union of Russian consumers to MegaFon

Zamoskvoretskiy court in Moscow has stopped the proceedings and granted the petition for Consumers Union, "MegaFon" in connection with the diversion of posts in the search engine Yandex this summer. "We are completely satisfied with the decision of the court. First, it was unclear what the requirements were to Consumers Union of Russia. In particular, the suit was filed in favor of an indefinite number of persons, although the incident affected a limited and precisely defined number of messages sent via the Internet. Secondly, we have from the first day itself took steps to protect the interests of affected customers. The Court has understood the situation ", - commented the decision of the court Goryainova Anna, Director of Legal Affairs of OJSC" MegaFon ". In court, representatives of "MegaFon" confirmed that the company has not committed any culpable actions for the dissemination of messages on the Internet. Reference: July 18, the search system Yandex had indexed 8000 objects temporarily in a closed part of the service for sending messages from the site of "MegaFon". Of these, about 3000 were real messages sent over the Internet from a site unknown senders 2500 subscribers. As a result of an incident in the Yandex some time remained available to the recipients phone numbers and text messages sent to them. Failure was promptly removed by specialists, the data is removed, and the level of protection of copyright of "MegaFon" raised to the maximum. Currently the service works by sending messages in normal mode. The incident had no relation to the SMS-messages sent from mobile devices. To protect the interests of clients the company «MegaFon» is offered July 19 compensation to the victims, as well as the opportunity to choose a new free phone number. For compensation to the company "MegaFon" subscribers turned nine, their demands are met, and the company claims they have not. On the day the site goes about 150 000 messages. A total of "MegaFon" is sent every day around 40 million SMS-messages.