O2 has fixed the issue that causes customers’ mobile numbers to be shared with websites they visit from their phones. In a post on its own site, the network admitted that between 10 January and 2pm ...

Update: O2 claims to have fixed the issue — and indeed, two O2 phones we’ve tested are no longer displaying their numbers on the test site. Read more about O2's response here. Original story follows: ...

UK carrier O2 finds itself embroiled in data protection controversy today, with allegations that the operator is revealing mobile users cellphone number to each website they visit on their phone.

O2 has fixed a bug in the way it handles mobile broadband traffic that saw its customers unwittingly exposing their mobile phone numbers to website owners. The operator apologised for the apparent ...

UK carrier O2 has apparently fixed the loophole that exposed subscribers' mobile numbers to websites they visited using their handset's data connection, though there's still no official explanation as ...

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 service ...

Tests suggest some, but not all, O2 mobile data users are affected O2 has been accused of exposing the phone numbers of customers who browse the internet using its mobile data. Lewis Peckover, a ...

· New, free-to-download app lets users make and receive calls, texts and voicemail from their existing O2 number on any supported device · Calls are charged in line with a Pay Monthly tariff – with ...

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O2 has fixed a flaw which saw customers’ mobile numbers being shared with websites they visited while browsing on 3G. O2 launched an investigation into the claims customers’ mobile phone numbers were ...

Mobile operator O2 has admitted that it regularly hands over subscribers' phone numbers to sites that offer age-restricted material and premium-rate billing, whether the users realise it or not. The ...

O2 has apologised for a technical problem which caused users' phone numbers to be disclosed when using its mobile data. The company said it normally only passed numbers to "trusted partners". A ...