Update: Mobile operator O2 says that as of 2pm Wednesday, it has fixed the part of its mobile web browsing service that was reporting mobile phone users’ telephone numbers to websites they visited via ...

O2 may also be unwittingly assisting spammers, allowing them to match email addresses with phone numbers. See below for more updates. If you reside in the UK and you are one of the millions of ...

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O2, once Apple’s exclusive cell phone company reseller of iPhones in the UK, has been caught exposing user phone numbers in the headers sent to websites its customers visit while using its 3G network.

O2 has issued an apology for the major security flaw which saw the mobile network accidently leak users' mobile phone numbers to every website they visited. The mobile network blames technical changes ...

Mobile phone operator O2 admits some of its customers’ numbers have been exposed while they browsed the internet using their smartphones – but tells Channel 4 News the issue is now fixed. The numbers ...

nepalnepal — An untold number of U.K. residents may have unwittingly broadcast their numbers to sites across the Web while browsing the Internet with their cellphones during the past two weeks. Mobile ...

An experiment set up by Lewis Peckover, a 28-year-old web systems administrator, called attention to the problem last night. Peckover showed that O2 was providing websites with the mobile number of ...