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2014 celebrity nude photo leak. On August 31, 2014, a collection of nearly five hundred private pictures of various celebrities, mostly women, with many containing nudity, were posted on the imageboard 4chan, and swiftly disseminated by other users on websites and social networks such as Imgur and Reddit. The leak was dubbed " The Fappening ...
News International phone hacking scandal. Rupert Murdoch in 2007. Employees of the now-defunct newspaper News of the World engaged in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of stories. Investigations conducted from 2005 to 2007 showed that the paper's phone hacking activities were targeted at celebrities ...
Andy Gray. Former Sky Sports pundit, ex-footballer. Warned by mobile phone company. 2006. Not named in indictment at trial. Has issued proceedings against the NOTW and Glenn Mulcaire for breach of privacy. Benedict Grant Noakes. Television producer, close friend of Paul McCartney and Heather Mills. Warned by police.
According to BuzzFeed, the pictures were allegedly retrieved through hacking celebrities' phones after an Apple iCloud leak. The anonymous hacker also claimed to have explicit videos of Lawrence ...
Both the FBI and Apple are now responding to the high-profile hack over the weekend. Nude photos and videos of Hollywood A-Listers including Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton were stolen and posted ...
Many compared it to the mass photo leak in 2014 — sometimes referred to as “the fappening” — which circulated photos from hacked celebrity phones. In 2018, actress Scarlett Johansson was ...
As of 31 August 2012, the Met had identified 4,744 victims of phone hacking by News of the World whose names and phone numbers had been found in evidence. Of the victims, 658 had been contacted, but 388 were not contactable and police chose not to contact another 23 "for operational reasons". Of the victims, 1,894 had been contacted but 1,781 ...
Phone hacking by news organizations became the subject of scandals that raised concerns about illegal acquisition of confidential information by news media organizations in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia between 1995 and 2012. The scandal had been simmering since 2002 but broke wide open in July 2011 with the disclosure ...