O2 has published an apology over today’s data leak which showed user’s numbers were made available to all websites. A simple site was set up to prove what information is sent when a page is accessed using a mobile browser, and O2 was shown to be revealing mobile numbers. O2 has finally responded to the issue via its blog after suffering a deluge of Twitter comments from outraged users, but has stopped short of apologising for leaking the data – rather only for the concern caused: “We have seen the report published this morning suggesting the potential for disclosure of [...]

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