O2 suspended its web-based MMS service after photos sent privately were displayed online.
The problem, reported by Computeractive and discovered by anti-spam blog Mail Channels, affects users of handsets that can't display picture messages, including iPhone. When these users receive an MMS they get a text message with a link to a web-based viewer. But some of these images can be viewed by anyone, without password protection – and were displayed with the sender's phone number.Advertisement
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