The mobile phone company O2 had to shut down their web based MMS viewing web site.

If an o2 customer received an MMS (picture or video) and did not have a MMS capable phone O2 would host the content (picture or video) on their web site.

However it would appear for some of this content Google was able to search and index the supposedly private content and it was publicly viewable by doing a Google search.

The viewing  Web site has now been taken offline to protect customers privacy.

To make matters worse the contact details of the sender and recipient were also exposed.

Link: http://news.google.co.uk/nwshp?tab=wn&ned=uk&ncl=1228737394&hl=en&topic=t

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