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THE sight of top model and David Jones ambassador Miranda Kerr has proved irresistible to many a man.

Unfortunately, the spotlight has now fallen on a Macquarie stockbroker seen live on television opening an email carrying pictures of Ms Kerr.

David Kiely was in the wrong place at the wrong time when he opened the document as his Macquarie colleague Martin Lakos made a live cross on Tuesday to the Seven Network to discuss the central bank's latest interest rate decision.

Mr Kiely can be seen in the background looking at the pictures on an office computer screen.

The clip had become a YouTube favourite by Wednesday, with the Seven footage earning a five star rating and more than 30,000 hits.

>> Watch the clip on YouTube

"Macquarie takes matters such as the unacceptable use of technology extremely seriously," the Sydney-based investment bank said in a statement.

"The issue arising from (the) live cross on Seven News is being dealt with internally."

Macquarie spokeswoman Irene O'Brien said the bank "never commented" on internal staff matters.

But a source familiar with the issue told AAP Mr Kiely was not at work on Wednesday.

The desk at which he was seen at on Tuesday was vacant, according vision shown on Sky TV.

"Understand that HR has not issued an all-staff email reiterating internet usage guidelines," the source said.

Dr Garrick Small, author and former professional ethics specialist at the University of Technology Sydney said Mr Kiely may be a victim of the pitfalls of office email.

"If you open something in good faith and don't anticipate what's inside it or a virus check doesn't take it out, then at least on that basis there's no ethical problem," he said on Wednesday.

"We have to trust that the people who were sending the mail were doing it for good purpose until we find out otherwise."

The email carrying the pictures of Ms Kerr is believed to have been circulated by a broking house outside Macquarie.

A spokeswoman for David Jones said the pictures of Ms Kerr, the face of the department store, were not from any of the retailer's own material.

The internet is riddled with email horror stories - mostly the kind where a message is mistakenly sent to the wrong person or a personal exchange ends up being sent to the entire office.

In 2000 there was the famous case of UK worker Claire Swires whose very, very personal email to her London law firm boyfriend grabbed readers from across the world after he forwarded it to some friends.