Tuesday, August 6, 2013

'Unprecedented' surge in online child abuse images

Child abuse images are being unwittingly hosted by ordinary websites, according to an internet watchdog.

In the last six weeks, there have been an unprecedented number of reports of the illegal images appearing on pages as mundane as furniture websites, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said.

The charity said it had received 227 reports in that time of websites being hijacked by hackers who post images of child abuse.

The IWF said it was a new phenomenon that it was unable to explain as most of the people who are taken to view these images do not want to see them.  (more...)

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