A new wave of ‘nude’ celebrity photos have been leaked online amid claims the graphic images may have been passed around an online club for months.
The previously unseen pictures are alleged to feature Parks and Recreation actress Aubrey Plaza, Downton Abbey star Jessica Brown Findlay and American Idol Season 12 contestant Tenna Torres.
A video, reportedly showing American actress Jennifer Lawrence, has also been leaked online. Brown Findlay also allegedly features in a video.
It follows the publication of naked photos of Lawrence and ’100 other celebrities’, including supermodel Kate Upton and actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead, on Sunday night.
The FBI said yesterday it was addressing allegations that the hacker broke into stars’ online accounts, before stealing their personal images and publishing them on 4chan, the anonymous image-sharing forum. However, it remains powerless to stop the continued spread of photos.
Last night, Reddit users took to a special subsection of the social networking site devoted to the leaks, called Fappening, to discuss the supposed release of a new wave of naked images.
Leak: A new wave of ‘naked’ celebrity pictures have been leaked online, including ones allegedly featuring Jessica Brown Findlay (right). A video, reportedly showing Jennifer Lawrence (left), has also been leaked online
Affected: The previously unseen pictures are alleged to include snaps of Parks and Recreation actress Aubrey Plaza (left) and American Idol Season 12 contestant Tenna Torres (right)
‘Video’: A series of X-rated videos of 24-year-old Findlay, who played Lady Sybil Crawley in the drama Downton Abbey (pictured), have also been leaked. A spokesman for the actress has confirmed that the videos are of her
Indeed, the internet is awash with speculation about the source of the leak. According to one anonymous 4chan poster, the release of nude photographs of celebrities was the product of an ‘underground celeb n00d-trading ring’.
The poster claimed the ring had been in operation for months and posters would trade or sell the photos they retrieved between each other.
Another poster, who claims to have been involved, wrote on AnonIB that the hacking had been ‘several months’ in the making and the nude photos were the result of ‘several months of long and hard work by all involved.’
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Meanwhile, one person claiming responsibility for the leak has claimed online to have a sex video of Lawrence and is reportedly accepting Paypal donations for the video.
‘I know no one will believe me, but i have a short lawrence video,’ the hacker wrote. ‘Is way too short, a little over 2 minutes and you only get to see her boobs.
‘Anyways, if somebody wants it let me know how i can upload it anonymously (i dont want the FBI over me, and you dont wanna know how I got this video.)’.
Hacked: It follows the publication of naked photos of Lawrence and ’100 other celebrities’, including supermodel Kate Upton (pictured) and actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead, on Sunday night
Hacked? A flaw in the ‘Find My iPhone’ function (right) of Apple’s iCloud service (left) may have helped the anonymous hacker to steal nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence and ’100 other celebrities’, it yesterday emerged
The new wave of leaked photos also includes a series of X-rated videos of 24-year-old Findlay,
who played Lady Sybil Crawley in the drama Downton Abbey.
A spokesman for the actress has confirmed that the videos are of her but said Jessica is ‘not making any comment because it’s a criminal investigation’.
Last night, Apple finally admitted that it is ‘actively investigating’ claims that a flaw in the ‘Find My iPhone’ function of its iCloud service may have helped the hacker to steal the naked images.
‘We take user privacy very seriously and are actively investigating this report,’ Apple spokeswoman Nat Kerris told MailOnline.
But the tech giant could not say how the alleged breach occurred and failed to offer any guarantee to its hundreds of millions of customers worldwide that the service is safe to use. Meanwhile, it quietly issued a ‘patch’, or fix, for the alleged ‘Find My iPhone’ bug.
One of the women named as an alleged victim – but who has not had any of her supposedly nude photos leaked – was Cara Delevingne (left). The hacker also claimed to have posted nude images of Kirsten Dunst (right)
Sarcastic: The Spiderman star tweeted ‘Thank you iCloud’ along with icons representing a slice of pizza and a pile of poo on Monday, the day after naked photos of the star were published online
Yesterday, Kirsten Dunst became the first celebrity to publicly criticize Apple when she posted a sarcastic message on Twitter. The Spiderman star tweeted ‘Thank you iCloud’, the day after naked photos of her were published online.
It is unknown how large the cache of ‘nude’ celebrity photos is, but it reportedly also includes images of Kim Kardashian, Rihanna, Cara Delevingne, Ariana Grande and Victoria Justice.
An online list posted by the hacker on Sunday evening named a staggering 101 celebrities.
Lawrence, a three-time Oscar nominee who won for her role in Silver Linings Playbook, contacted authorities after the images began appearing Sunday.
‘This is a flagrant violation of privacy,’ Lawrence’s publicist Liz Mahoney wrote in a statement. ‘The authorities have been contacted and will prosecute anyone who posts the stolen photos of Jennifer Lawrence.’
Hacked: Mary Elizabeth Winstead tweeted that nude photographs of her were taken with her husband ‘years ago in the privacy of our home’
The hacking victim also offered support for other celebrities whose nude photos were leaked
Meanwhile, other celebrities, including singer Ariana Grande and Nickelodeon star Victoria Justice, quickly denounced the images as fake.Many other celebrities are yet to see any ‘nude’ photos appear online.Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton yesterday apologised on Twitter for posting some of the naked photos of Lawrence on his blog, saying he feels ‘awful’.
Hilton, who has since deleted the photos from the site, told his followers: ‘I acted in haste just to get the post up and didn’t really think things through. I’m sorry.’
He added: ‘Upon further reflection and just sitting with my actions, I don’t feel comfortable even keeping the censored photos up. I am removing them.’
Some of the photos date back years and one confirmed victim, Winstead, expressed her shock that someone was able to uncover images ‘deleted long ago.
Nickelodeon star Victoria Justice wrote on Twitter that her image was faked. She tweeted, ‘These so called nudes of me are FAKE people. Let me nip this in the bud right now. *pun intended*’
Mysterious: A spokesman denied that nude photographs of Ariana Grande (left) were published. Hillary Duff was named as an alleged victim, though her apparently ‘nude’ photos have not appeared online
‘To those of you looking at photos I took with my husband years ago in the privacy of our home, hope you feel great about yourselves,’ she posted on Twitter.
Winstead, who starred in Final Destination 3 and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, wrote that she thought the images had been destroyed.
‘Knowing those photos were deleted long ago, I can only imagine the creepy effort that went into this,’ she wrote.
WHAT IS 4CHAN?
4Chan is an image-based forum where users can post photos and videos anonymously, as well as comment on others’ posts.
Registration is not required, nor possible.
The site is split into various boards, each with their own specific content and guidelines.
These include content on music, photography, gaming, comics, fashion and images of celebrities, such as Jennifer Lawrence.
Its main board, called ‘Random’, features minimal rules on what can be posted. It is often where controversial images and videos are uploaded by users.
When it launched in 2003, the site was used to post photos and discuss Japanese anime.
However, it quickly expanded, and is now linked to various internet subcultures and activism.
It has also been linked to a number of high-profile hacks.
In 2006, users of 4chan and other websites ‘raided’ American white nationalist Hal Turner by launching multiple attacks and prank calling his phone-in radio show.
Meanwhile, in 2008, the Yahoo email account of Sarah Palin was hacked by an anonymous 4chan user, before posting her password and screenshots on Wikileaks.
This followed criticism of Palin supposedly using private email accounts for governmental work.
And in May 2009, members of the site attacked YouTube, posting pornographic videos on the site
The metadata on other photos – including those of model Kate Upton – suggests they were taken more recently.
The FBI said it was ‘aware of the allegations concerning computer intrusions and the unlawful release of material involving high profile individuals, and is addressing the matter.’
‘Any further comment would be inappropriate at this time,’ spokeswoman Laura Eimiller wrote in a statement.
The FBI has investigated previous leaks of nude celebrity images, including leaks involving Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis, Christina Aguilera and footage of television sports reporter Erin Andrews in a Tennessee hotel room. Those cases resulted in convictions.
Some cybersecurity experts speculated that this time, hackers may have obtained a cache of private celebrity images by exploiting weaknesses in an online image-storing platform.
‘It is important for celebrities and the general public to remember that images and data no longer just reside on the device that captured it,’ security researcher Ken Westin wrote in a blog post Monday.
‘Once images and other data are uploaded to the cloud, it becomes much more difficult to control who has access to it, even if we think it is private.’
Private information and images of celebrities are frequent targets for hackers. Last year, a site posted credit reports, Social Security numbers and other financial info on celebrities, including Jay Z and his wife Beyonce, Mel Gibson, Ashton Kutcher and many others.
Johansson, Kunis and Aguilera were hacked by a Florida man, Christopher Chaney, who used publicly available information to hack into the email accounts of more than 50 people in the entertainment industry.
‘I have been truly humiliated and embarrassed,’ Johansson said in a tearful videotaped statement played in court at Chaney’s sentencing in December 2012.
‘That feeling of security can never be given back and there is no compensation that can restore the feeling one has from such a large invasion of privacy,’ Aguilera wrote in a statement before Chaney’s sentencing
Victims? Nude photos of Selena Gomez (left) and Kim Kardashian (right) were also allegedly hacked and acquired. But no photographs have appeared online
THE 101 ‘VICTIMS’: WHO THE HACKER CLAIMS TO HAVE HACKED
AJ Michalka, American actress, singer-songwriter, and musician
Alyson ‘Aly’ Michalka, AJ’s sister, also an American actress
Allegra Carpenter, actress, best known for The Fault In Our Stars
Abigail Spencer, American actress
Alana Blanchard, American professional surfer and bikini model
Alexa Jane, model
Angelina McCoy, actress, best known for Enchanted
Anna O’Neill
Ashley Blankenship, actress, appeared in The Wolf Of Wall Street
Aubrey Plaza, American actress and comedian
Abigail ‘Abby’ Elliott, American actress, voice actress and comedian
AnnaLynne McCord, actress and model
Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter
Amber Heard, American actress and model
Rebecca ‘Becca’ Tobin, actress, singer, and dancer
Brie Larson, American actress, screenwriter, director and singer
Brittany Booker
Candace Smith, American lawyer, actress, model, and beauty queen
Candice Swanepoel, South African fashion model, best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret
Cara Delevingne, English fashion model
Carley Pope, Canadian actress
Carmella Carcia
Carrie Michalka
Cat Deeley, English television presenter, actress, singer and model
Carly Foulkes, Canadian model and actress
Chloe Dykstra, actress and model
Clare Bowen, Australian actress and singer
Dove Cameron, 18-year-old U.S. actress and singer
Elena Satine, Georgian-American actress and singer
Elle Evans, American model and actress
Ellenore Scott
Emily Browning, Australian film actress and singer
Emily DiDonato, model from New York
Emily Ratajkowski, British-born model and actress
Erin Cummings, American actress
Erin Heatherton, American fashion model and actress
Farrah Abraham, TV personality, author and pornographic actress
Gabrielle Union, American actress and former model
Gabi Grecko
Hayden Panettiere, U.S. actress, model and singer
Hope Solo, American goalkeeper and two-time Olympic gold medalist
Heather Marks, Canadian model
Hilary Duff, American actress and singer-songwriter
Jacqueline Dunford
Janelle Ginestra
Jennifer Lawrence, American actress
Jessiqa Pace
Jessica Dunford
Jessica Riccardi, model
Jesse Golden
JoJo, American singer, songwriter and actress
Joanna Krupa, Polish American model and actress
Jennifer ‘Jenny’ McCarthy, American model and actress
Josie Loren, U.S. actress
Joy Corrigan
Kaley Cuoco, American actress
Kaime O’Teter
Kate Upton, American model and actress
Kate Bosworth, American actress
Kelly Brook, English model, actress and TV presenter
Lauren ‘Keke’ Palmer, American actress and singer-songwriter
Kim West, American TV personality socialite
Kirsten Dunst, American actress, singer, model and director
Krysten Ritter, U.S. actress, musician, and former model
Lake Bell, American actress
Laura Ramsey, film and television actress
Lea Michele, actress and singer, best known for her performance as Rachel Berry on the Fox TV series Glee
Leelee Sobieski, actress
Leven Rambin, American actress
Lisa Kelly, American trucker who appeared in Ice Road Truckers
Lisalla Montenegro, Brazilian model
Lindsay Clubine
Lizzy Caplan, American actress
Mary-Kate Olsen, American actress and fashion designer
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, actress and recording artist
McKayla Maroney, artistic gymnast
Melissa Benoist, American actress and singer
Meagan Good, actress
Megan Boone, actress
Michelle Keegan, British actress
Mikayla Pierce
Misty Treanor, retired American beach volleyball player
Nina Stavris
Rachel Nichols, American actress and model
Rihanna, singer
Sarah Shahi, American actress
Sahara Ray
Sarah Schneider, American writer, actress, and comedian
ScarJo (possibly Scarlett Johansson, actress)
Selena Gomez, American actress and singer
Shannon McNally, singer-songwriter
Tameka Jacobs
Teresa Palmer, Australian actress and model
Uldouz
Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer
Victoria Justice, Nickelodeon actress
Wailana Geisen
Winona Ryder, American actress
Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
Alison Brie (U.S. actress) and Dave Franco (U.S. actor)
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