The founder of Omegle has shut down the anonymous chat website over safety concerns. Leif K-Brooks, who launched the site in 2009 at the age of 18, said Omegle had been “misused to commit unspeakably ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Omegle, a video chat service that connects users with strangers at random, is shutting down after 14 years following ample misuse of the platform — particularly the sexual abuse of ...

Omegle, an anonymous chat website that promised to connect “random strangers,” shut down abruptly today. The decision follows years of controversy, with users claiming that the site lacked proper ...

Online chat website Omegle has shut down after repeated claims that it faciliated child abuse. The site, which randomly paired people with strangers and became particularly popular among children ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Omegle advertised itself as a place to "talk to strangers" (Alamy/PA) The founder of Omegle has shut down the anonymous chat ...

What are the odds that you’ll meet random strangers and have conversations like besties or get to it in a matter of minutes? You’ll never know unless you stop complaining about how you don’t meet ...

The free site, which launched in 2009, randomly paired users to chat anonymously in one-on-one sessions. If users no longer wished to talk to their match, they could simply end the chat and ...

"I feel personal pride that no more children will be added to Omegle's body count," says the woman who successfully forced the infamous chat site to shut down. Speaking for the first time since the ...

Omegle, a website that connected strangers for video chats, has shut down after a lawsuit accused it of facilitating child abuse. Founder Leif K-Brooks announced the closure Wednesday in a lengthy ...

A BBC investigation into the increasingly popular live video chat website Omegle has found what appear to be prepubescent boys explicitly touching themselves in front of strangers. Omegle links up ...