Samsung message bug sporadically sending the entire contents of one's gallery

Users of Samsung's Messages app are facing a weird issue

Several of them have confirmed their entire galleries of photos has been sent to a random contact, and the scary part is the whole process happened without leaving a trace (meaning the sent photos didn't show up at their end).

No one has any idea about how this bug came to be as of now.

This seems to affect those with the latest version of the Samsung Messages app. Users have taken to Reddit to complain about the issue and it has been observed that this problem does not seem to be device specific or network specifically for that matter. The source of this bug has not been identified yet, and people seem to recommend that disabling storage permissions for the Samsung Messages app seems to be the workaround for the time being. This prevents the app from accessing the data in the device Gallery.

The only workaround currently available is to deny storage access to the app, something which you can do by heading to Settings -> Apps -> Samsung Messages -> Permissions -> Storage. There's no word from Samsung on the matter so far.