Website with thousands of pictures of nude Australian women taken down for third time
A crude website containing thousands of images of naked Australian women and schoolgirls has been shut down for a third time.
In what's been described by technology experts as a "whack-a-mole" system, there's fears the images will continue to resurface.
"As soon as you remove a copy, another copy is uploaded just as quickly by another user," expert Ben Aylett said.
"It's really, really hard to police."
The leaked images, including pictures of students from multiple Perth schools, were first reported back in February.
At the time, Presbyterian Ladies' College in Perth issued a statement saying the images had been used "without consent", while Perth's Methodist Ladies' College principal Rebecca Cody said the school had a "fundamental duty" to block the site.
But the site didn't just stop in WA with women across Australia finding naked images of themselves online - either leaked, shared or taken from social media.
Just a month after the first site was shut down, girls as young as 14 were reported on a second site set up using the same images.
Alarmingly, the second site was set up to allow users to download the images which expired every two days.
"There's really no chance of us being able to contact those networks or remove half of the images I suppose let alone all of them," Paul Litherland from Surf Online Safe told Seven News.
"It’s almost a network or a shopping market to a degree in regards to people trying to see these photos."
Police haven't revealed how long the third site was online for, but have warned women and schoolgirls the best way to protect themselves is to not take nude photographs.
