The event dubbed "The Fappening" began on Monday with images slowly released by an anonymous hacker who requested bitcoin as payment for their release.
Who Was Affected
Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence and Model Kate Upton took prime spot featuring in the initial images released. But soon Victoria Justice, Rhianna, Ariana Grande and more would join the list.
While Miss Lawrence and others admitted the images were real some celebrities denied the authenticity of the images. Later some of the celebrities who originally denied the authenticity (Victoria Justice), have since admitted that they are real.
Response And Investigation
The celebrities involved have taken the issue to the FBI who are investigating the hack while the hacker responsible for publishing the images is on the run. Apple set up a team on their side to investigate how the photo's were obtained. It has since been confirmed it was not a breach of Apple's iCloud but instead a targeted attack on specific accounts.
Besides the breach and theft of personal documents certain images were of a then underage McKayla Maroney classifying the images as child pornography. And if it wasn't bad enough trying to remove some of the images has been made more difficult for Miss Lawrence who has been in a legal battle with a porn site who claim she did not own the copyright of the images, as they were not taken by her, and is refusing to remove the images.
And lastly members of Reddit donated $6000 to a prostate cancer charity after viewing the leaked images which was returned as the charity did not condone the manner in which the funds were raised.
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