The Utah State Bar is very confused as to how it emailed a picture of some titties to lawyers throughout the state, and is “investigating” how the image was included alongside content promoting its 2018 Spring Convention in St George.
Graphic: Apple
Bar communications director Matt Page told the Salt Lake Tribune that they are “aware of the situation” and “investigating how it got out”, and added that when he generated the graphic advertising the convention, there were no breasts included. The good news, for anyone concerned that the image may have accidentally come from someone at the Bar’s mobile phone photo directory, is that it looks an awful lot like a generic boob image pulled from the web. (A reverse image search on Google yielded no clues, other than that the search engine believes the most striking detail about the file is that it features a blonde.)
Every lawyer in the state got an email of a topless woman from the Utah State Bar – https://t.co/idbJi5Kncu https://t.co/ZB4TxCZakv pic.twitter.com/h5tXGewd5T
— Logan Utah News (@Logan_News) March 6, 2018
The Utah State Bar quickly apologised for the mistake on Twitter, though other users thought the situation was too funny to let slip by unnoticed.
Apologies to all who received an inappropriate email from the Utah State Bar. We are aware of the situation and are investigating the matter.
— Utah State Bar (@UtahStateBar) March 5, 2018
Hey Utah Lawyers: DO NOT OPEN THE LATEST STATE BAR EMAIL AT WORK! VERY NSFW AND I CANT STOP LAUGHING
— Small Baller Fox (@FoxOnABox_) March 5, 2018
For you non-lawyers, the state bar just accidentally emailed porn to every lawyer on its listserve and I’m dying. https://t.co/j8Q4cluKV9
— Small Baller Fox (@FoxOnABox_) March 5, 2018
The Utah State Bar accidentally sent porn to all the lawyers in the state today in an email blast. As if working against other lawyers all day didn’t already make me feel dirty.
— Adam Alba (@adam_alba) March 6, 2018
Apparently those of us with inactive Utah State Bar licenses don’t get the best emails, just the boring ones about proposed rule changes.
— Snot Boogie (@stevenusdavis) March 6, 2018
@UtahStateBar you just sent me an invite to the 2018 Spring Convention with a pornographic image attached to it
— Peter Harrison (@il_slinky) March 5, 2018
tbh I bet they’re gonna get better than normal turnout at the spring convention
— Shane (@shaneferro) March 6, 2018
According to Deseret News, the focus of the Bar’s investigation is into whether the image was attached by someone in the organisation or (let’s be honest, less likely) that they were “hacked” by parties unknown.
Alliance for a Better Utah policy and advocacy counsel Chase Thomas told Desert News he was sitting in the House gallery at the State Capitol when he received the message, adding he “was expecting a routine email I would most likely scroll through and delete. But I had to scroll through and delete a lot faster than I had initially anticipated.”