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A T-Mobile tracking device briefly showed parents kids that weren’t theirs.

The SyncUp tracker and app showed a parent the locations of children from “around the country,” 404 Media reports.

T-Mobile gave a statement to the publication saying that it fixed a “a temporary system issue with our SyncUP products that resulted from a planned technology update.”

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