On September 20,a second batch of similar private photos of additional celebrities was leaked by hackers.Īctress Lena Dunham pleaded on Twitter for people not to view the pictures, saying doing so "violat these women over and over again.
The original release contained photos and videos of more than individuals that were allegedly obtained from file storage on hacked iCloud accounts, including some the leakers claimed were A-list celebrities.Ĭelebrities who have denied the photos' authenticity include Ariana Grande and Yvonne Strahovski.Īccording to security expert Nik Cubrilovicin addition to the photographs, other personal information such as text messages, calendars, address books, phone call logs and any other data stored on their phones and backed up to the service were also likely stolen. Reddit administrators were criticized for allowing this to take place in an alleged violation of their anti- doxing rules. A major center of activity was the link-sharing website Reddit where a subreddit was created for sharing the photos in a single day, it amassed overfollowers. The hacker responsible for the leak, who described themselves as being a "collector", distributed the leaked images on the image boards 4chan and Anon-IB in exchange for Bitcoin.Ĭelebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton also re-posted some of the photos on his blog, but soon took them down and issued an apology, saying "he had acted in bad taste".
There are claims that unreleased photos and videos exist. The images were obtained via the online storage offered by Apple 's iCloud platform for automatically backing up photos from iOS devices, such as iPhones. The leak also prompted increased concern from analysts surrounding the privacy and security of cloud computing services such as iCloud-with a particular emphasis on their use to store sensitive, private information. 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 " The Happening " and "Celebgate", was met with a varied reaction from the media and fellow celebrities.Ĭritics felt that the distribution of the images was a major invasion of privacy for their subjects, while some of the allegedly depicted subjects questioned their authenticity. The images were initially believed to have been obtained via a breach of Apple 's cloud services suite iCloud or a security issue in the iCloud API which allowed them to make unlimited attempts at guessing victims' passwords.
On August 31,a collection of almost private pictures of various celebrities, mostly women, and with many containing nuditywere posted on the imageboard 4chanand later disseminated by other users on websites and social networks such as Imgur and Reddit.
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