Who's in the news? Hacked Celebrities (Follow Up)

Since The Fappening a few weeks ago and the response it was thought life would return to normal but it seems the hacker is back with even more photo's, this time with a new batch of celebrities to taunt.

New Celebrities

The second batch of photo's include Jennifer Lawrence again but also include actress Vanessa Hudgens and US soccer player Hope Solo and singer Avril Lavigne along with photo's of Amber Heard and Rhinna with many more listed. An understandably upset Gabrielle Union addressed the issue calling the hackers "vultures" victimizing women and children.

It's believed the new wave of photo's are from the original hack a few weeks ago and not a new security breach. Since the leak some of those affected have taken legal action against Apple and are trying to turn it into a class action lawsuit with the help from others affected by the hack.

Emma Watson

After Emma Watson's speech on feminism at the UN headquarters, and the new #HeForShe campaign, the supposed hackers claimed they would post nude photo's of Emma on a website for expressing her feminist views. Since then it has emerged that the threat and website was a publicity stunt to shut down the 4chan website where the original leaked celebrity photo's were found.

Who's in the news? Hacked Celebrities

This week saw the release of hundreds of private photo's of various female celebrities supposedly hacked from iCloud accounts and posted online.

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.