Celebrity nude photo leaks

On August 31, , a collection of almost private pictures of various celebrities, mostly women, and with many containing nudity , were posted on the imageboard 4chan , and later disseminated by other users on websites and social networks such as Imgur and Reddit. The images were initially believed to have been obtained via a breach of Apple 's cloud services suite iCloud , [1] [2] or a security issue in the iCloud API which allowed them to make unlimited attempts at guessing victims' passwords. The event, which media outlets and internet users referred to under names such as the "fappening" a portmanteau of "fap", a slang term for masturbation , and " happening " and "Celebgate", was met with a varied reaction from the media and fellow celebrities. Critics felt that the distribution of the images was a major invasion of privacy for their subjects, while some of the allegedly depicted subjects denied their authenticity.

Please refresh the page and retry. But the following hours, and days, yielded anything but. I f this was all too familiar for the actresses involved, then it conjured a sense of bleak deja vu for followers of pop culture, too. In , hundreds of celebrities, almost entirely women involved in Hollywood , had intimate photographs stolen from the iCloud digital backup service linked to their iPhones.

By Gene Maddaus. Senior Media Writer. A third person has agreed to plead guilty in the hacking of nude photos of nearly celebrities, which leaked online in According to the plea, he used a phishing scam to gain access to Gmail and iCloud accounts, including approximately 40 accounts of male and female celebrities.

We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Hunger Games actress Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst, and pop star Ariana Grande were among the celebrities apparently shown in the pictures, which were posted on infamous web forum 4chan. It's unclear how the images were obtained.