I'm halfway in the same boat. I can't totally empathize with this scenario, but I can definitely understand that someone who sent someone else intimate pictures

I'm halfway in the same boat. I can't totally empathize with this scenario, but I can definitely understand that someone who sent someone else intimate pictures would feel violated at them finding their way into the public and topping search results for their name. And especially, as it seems, with contact information attached with them. Your second sentence would hint that you acknowledge there are different social forces at play here.