Large Scale Hack Results in Nude Photes of Celebrities on the Internet

[alfred russel]

Nude Photos Of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Ariana Grande Leak In Massive Hack

Jennifer Lawrence, Ariana Grande, and Kate Upton were among a handful of celebrities whose nude photos were leaked late Sunday afternoon following  what appears to be a large-scale hack.

The photos first appeared on a 4Chan thread (very NSFW). So far, only Lawrence's publicist Bryna Rifkin has confirmed, in an official statement to Buzzfeed, that the photos were of her client:

This is a flagrant violation of privacy. The authorities have been contacted and will prosecute anyone who posts the stolen photos of Jennifer Lawrence.

The leaked photos were allegedly obtained via a massive hack of Apple's iCloud. They were then posted on 4chan by users offering more explicit material in exchange for bitcoin payments.

"The hacker on 4chan is also claiming to have explicit videos of Lawrence, and claims to have over 60 nude selfies of the Oscar-winning actress," Buzzfeed reported Sunday.

Former Nickelodeon star Victoria Justice took to Twitter to say the photos leaked of her were fake.

The tweet has racked up thousands of retweets in support of the actress and songwriter.

A master list of all of the celebrities whose phones were apparently obtained is circulating the internet.

It includes Cara Delevingne, Kim Kardashian, and Mary-Kate Olsen.

Master List

Imgur/Buzzfeed

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9/11. And now this. Stories so big that when I first heard them, I will remember where I was and what I was doing for the rest of my life.

[Valmy]

4Chan posters being amongst the worst scum of humanity?  Amazed and, indeed, shocked.

[Ed Anger]

Since Larch notified me first, he keeps his Golden Tilapia award.

I'll send you the consolation prize, Ken Dorsey's jockstrap.

[CountDeMoney]

I approve of this flagrant violation of privacy.

The leaked photos were allegedly obtained via a massive hack of Apple's iCloud.

Fuckers got my cat photos.

[Phillip V]

URL for these pics?

[Alcibiades]

http://www.reddit.com/r/TheFappening/comments/2f44n0/new_celeb_leaked_pics_all_in_one_place/

[viper37]

Will they try and sue Apple for some kind of negligence?

[Kleves]

Nice to see hackers using their powers for good, rather than evil.

[CountDeMoney]

It's like Christmas in August!

[CountDeMoney]

Brie Larson's nipples are Olympic gold.

Mary E. Winstead looks fetching on all fours.

[Berkut]

Jennifer Lawrence is just freaking adorable.

[Admiral Yi]

They're starting to take the images off that site.

[katmai]

Yeah I seemed to have missed all this fun.

[Liep]

Yeah I seemed to have missed all this fun.

They're still there. It's the internet, nothing ever leaves, especially not nude celebrity pictures.

Though I do regret that visit to the sewers of the internet that, perhaps rightly, 4chan has been dubbed; these celebrities are fucking weird. Who keeps blowjob pictures on an iCloud account? Jeez, I thought I was looking for, at most, a naked mirror selfie or something, not.. that.

[Josquius]

Thats the trouble with this consumer cloud stuff, so much of it just uploads all your photos automatically without the user being really aware of quite what is going on.
I approve.