Nude photos of “Hunger Games” star Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande and Kirsten Dunst, among many others, leaked online Sunday morning in one of the biggest celebrity hacking scandals in recent memory.
The images, which first appeared on image-sharing site 4chan, show most of the celebrities nude or in provocative poses.
A spokesperson for Lawrence confirmed the photos were real and blasted the hackers for their “flagrant violation of privacy.”
“The authorities have been contacted and will prosecute anyone who posts the stolen photos of Jennifer Lawrence,” her representative warned.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, another actress exposed in the leak, immediately took to Twitter to denounce the images.
SNIP: Why would anyone think taking nude photos on devices that use internet storage would be private and safe? I suppose some people have iClouded judgement?
Scroll down to the comments- Most aren’t very supportive
Thirty years of marriage (to the same man) 5 children, and absolutely no nude pics of me and the hubs anywhere, not even in cyberspace. Most people outside of the “bubble” live their entire lifetime without this sort of incident.
I was a photographer, never took one nude photo in 30 years.
Seems like some people have low moral values.
Best comment from the Variety article!
Come on, folks. These are the same people that think global warming and climate change are caused by humans and that the best way to stop the spread of HIV is a condom but the best birth control is an abortion.
These are NOT deep thinkers.
Baby oil is the way to go. Hand lotion absorbs too quick.
As Lucifer said to Saint Peter, “The Cloud ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.” 👿
In my mind, I picture celebrities on the toilet taking a shit. They’re no better than anybody else.
I hope none of Moochelle come out.
Hollywood is Atheist and proud of it.
Put my stuff in the cloud? Really? I mean it’s bad enough the way things are going now. So what would be the Nazi Germany equivalent of this “trend”? I don’t claim to be a great knowledgeable person in this so called technology, but it sounds pretty stupid to me. I went to a seminar/info thing a couple of years ago about the cloud BS in the scientific world, and it sounded to me like trouble waiting to happen. Hey, it’s settled science…
Damn straight, Sarthutrk.
Put it on “The Cloud” and you might as well hang it outside on the clothesline in the front yard.
At least, if it’s on your own PC, NSA has to put in a little effort to get it.
🙄
I think this cloud thingy was made just for that reason. Put all your info in the cloud and the government can see what you up too.
I don’t even have email. Never did.
I looked…
Kate Upton has really nice…er, uh…eyes.
Yes, she has really nice eyes.
@Chalupa. I picture most celebrities crawling out of a toilet after someone takes a shit. I mean, it would explain a lot about the way they behave and think.
These asswipes are just pissed it got out for free.
Dumb enough to take nude pics of yourself? Check
Dumb enough to back it up to the cloud? (Where someone other than you controls it.) Check
Shocked and outraged that the world is filled with douchebags who’ll trade your photos back and forth? Check
Yep, sounds like liberals
…or, as the old joke goes, sharon:
“you don’t HAVE any?! Wanna BUY some?!”
😉
As stupid as throwing that stuff up in the ether may be…
…I think the “outrage” is a bit…umm…calculated.
OUT OF PURELY SCIENTIFIC REASONS, I googled “nude Kate Upton;” they provide a SEA of images.
Oh…but they’re shocked…SHOCKED!
@ Cardigan
My scientific research revealed the revolutionary discovery that women have breasts. STOP the presses!
Never forget: No such thing as “bad” publicity.
Here we are putting them in the spotlight talking about them.
Mission accomplished.
I just bought a 3Tb WD MyCloud outboard HD.
$170 at Sam’s.
Worth every penny in privacy.
I bet samsung is laughing VERY VERY hard today.
Their next commercial will probably feature Jennifer Lawrence…
“I chose the Samsung Galaxy S5 because it DOESN’T automatically back up my personal items to iCloud, unlike the iPhone.”
Looks like it might have been a python script posted to Github which allowed potential hackers to do a brute force attack on iClod passwords (see what I did there) via the “find my iPhone” feature which allegedly had no protection against such exploitation.
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2014/09/01/this-could-be-the-apple-icloud-flaw-that-led-to-celebrity-photos-being-leaked/
They also posted a list of the 500 most common passwords which may have helped.
https://github.com/hackappcom/ibrute
I must not get out enough … I’m not familiar with these ‘actresses’ but why have your picture taken if you don’t want it to be seen?
Isn’t that the point of a photograph?
More squirrels perhaps? Get people focused on this, because the lofos will. Don’t want them getting interested in barky’s world burn.
I didn’t see any, and I was looking
The relevant threads are on 4chan and reddit.
Those two sites are the incubator for all trends on the internet.
I still want to know if imagination meets expectations.
Sheesh
What’s a guy gotta do?