UK Mobile Operator O2 allows its customers to send Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) photos to email recipients by way of a web interface. The URLs published by the MMS-to-email application are not authenticated, so a simple Google search reveals hundreds, if not thousands of private photos. Click on the link and then choose the 'Cached' link under each of them to see the leaked photos.

thats pretty f**ked up!

Mate that is so bad. Some funny photo's though

EDIT: Guess it'd be wrong to post some links up of some hilarious messages and photo's i've found

Seriously glad I'm not an O2 customer, that is well scary

Yeah - it's not just the pix themselves that have been leaked - the mobile phone numbers are on the page, as well.

Could Find some incriminating stories/photo's. I'd have to conisdering ringing them and telling them HAHA that'd give em a shock!

E2A Wonder why there's only 49

¡Aww - do share - you can't just say something like that and then leave us all on edge!


e²a: I would guess that these are all the ones that Google managed to cache before they caught wind of the leak - that's probably why the original direct links don't work.

e³a: Having looked through them all, I guess that phenomena such as 'dogging' isn't a popular as it's made out to be.

Yes I was hoping I could find some weed plants or a naked bird or something. Even the GF was hoping we'd see someone starkers for shits and giggles. Page 3 has a fit girl on it believe it or not

Someones website is worth over £4000 now. And they were on holiday near Loch Ness

The reason that they can be Googled is that Google Toolbar may be configured to pass URLs that one visits to Google for indexing - if you run Google Toolbar, it knows pages you visit.

So if this is correct, Google in its wisdom has decided to treat a URL sent to someone with the Google toolbar in a private email as a publicly reachable URL.

If this is correct then I'd be stripping off the Google toolbar (a completely separate plugin - not the same as Firefox's inbuilt search bar) as quick as I could.

Did you find out about the MMS thing or hear it somewhere else scribble?

I heard it from somewhere else and then investigated it further myself.

It's not the only sort of thing you can find using a bit of creative Google-hacking, though.

Using the same inurl trick?

Amongst others, yes - there are loads of interesting operators that you can use with Google search to find certain things in certain places.

Thats my mum!!!