Mikala Monsoon, 23, found her intimate pictures on the site

Thousands of revenge porn pictures of women from every major town, county and city in the UK are being freely shared online.

The disturbing images were found on a cloud storage website called Mega, which is used to share large collections of images and videos.

They have been organised into folders that are named after locations in the UK.

Within these are dozens of subfolders with victim’s names on them, all containing nude and intimate images.


Revenge porn – the sharing of private sexual images without consent – became illegal in 2015 in England and Wales, and carries a maximum sentence of two years.



Mikala Monsoon, 23, from Glasgow, discovered her photos were on the site after being sent a link by an old school friend.

Someone uploaded intimate photos of Mikala when she was 17 and they have repeatedly resurfaced online over the last six years.

She’s changed her name and left her hometown to get away from the revenge porn pictures that followed her around.

The site contains folders of revenge porn, featuring women from every major UK town, county and city

Folders include pictures of revenge porn victims from Twickenham to York

The makeup artist waived her right to anonymity to call on the police to properly investigate the site.

She told metro.co.uk: ‘These photos have been circulating for four or five years and I’ve always brushed them away, thinking I’ll try and get them taken down and move on with my life.

‘I’ve been so mortified, upset and anxious but now I am just angry.

‘I’ve done my best to separate myself from it but last Wednesday I got a message from a girl I went to school with.

‘She told me I was on this website.’

She added: ‘My pictures have been on Reddit and porn sites but this website was the biggest collection I’ve seen.

‘It had every city in the UK, with the names of towns and subfolders with people’s names on them.

Mikala Monsoon is calling on the police to properly investigate the site

‘The whole thing is appalling. So many people are driven to such anxiety and a lot of people are finding out about the pictures for the first time. They’re in deep pain.’

Mega told the BBC last week that it ‘does not tolerate any illegal activity’ and its standard procedure is to ‘disable the link and close the user’s account’.

Mikala reported the site to police in Glasgow last week, but the revenge porn page is still live with all the pictures freely available to download.

She said: ‘I had to explain to the officer what Mega and other file-sharing sites were.

‘How can you not understand these basic things about the internet and then expect to investigate internet crime?’

Mikala says it’s ‘infuriating’ to hear people blaming victims of revenge porn, rather than the perpetrators and the people sharing the pictures.

She said: ‘People still don’t know it’s a problem which is baffling for someone like me who has been going through it for so long.’



She added: ‘I spoke to someone for the first time last night and they’ve lost their job and their family and friends.

The study found 80 per cent of victims were women (Picture: Getty Images/ iStockphoto)

‘She told me that she had honestly contemplated suicide so many times. That’s the reality because this is the internet, it’s so vast.

‘Even if you get something taken down, it pops up. It’s like wack-a-mole, you can’t control it. It’s so devastating.’

She believes people who share revenge porn pictures should end up on the sex offenders’ register as it is a crime of a sexual nature.

‘But the police just don’t see it that way,’ she said.

‘The law needs to change so the people who do this don’t just get a slap on the wrist.

‘It’s much worse than that for the victims. I’ve spoken to so many people who’ve considering ending their lives because their lives have fallen apart.

‘It follows you around forever unless you change your name and move. It definitely needs to be cracked down a lot more.’

Police Scotland confirmed the incident has been reported and ‘enquiries will be carried out’.

Detective Superintendent Gordon McCreadie said: ‘Non Consensual sharing of intimate images is a new offence, introduced in July 2017. Investigation into these offences is complex and dependant in many cases on the way in which perpetrators obtain and share the images as well as the ability to recover sufficient evidence to charge.‎

‘It can also depend very much on the technologies used by both the perpetrator and the victim. Perpetrators often share, or threaten to share images as a way of trying to impose power and control over their victims in what can be an absolute betrayal of trust.


‘There is under-reporting of NCSII, perhaps because people may feel embarrassed. What I would say to victims is don’t be embarrassed – the police are not here to judge the way in which you conduct your personal life. Police Scotland remains committed to robustly investigating these matters.

‘We encourage victims to come forward early which will better enable us to get evidence from any devices, or provide support to them, and advise how best to minimise impact.’

National Police Chiefs’ Council Lead for public protection Chief Constable Simon Bailey added: ‘Police take revenge pornography very seriously and we will pursue all lines of inquiry and prosecute people where appropriate.

‘When cases are submitted to the CPS and prosecution is not pursuable officers will signpost victims to groups like the National Stalking Helpline who can offer support and advice.

‘The College of Policing has produced a briefing and training note which all officers involved in these types of investigations can access.’

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