Celebrities including Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence were the target of what appears to be one of the biggest celebrity hackings.
Dozens of private, nude photographs were said to be accessed from phones and leaked online, reports CBS News correspondent Anthony Mason. The pictures were allegedly taken from a cloud-based Internet data storage system.
Posts on the websites 4chan and Reddit said the celebrities were exposed when a hacker broke into their cloud-based storage.
Online posts claim more than 100 celebrities are part of the illicit cache and that more photos will be released.
Explicit images of the Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence appeared online, showing the 24-year-old in various stages of undress.
Assuming the photos are real or appropriated, the question is how can any celebrity expect to challenge the internet, the message boards and claim that the photos can not be duplicated? Which is to ask at what point when an individual chooses to store material that can be uploaded on an Apple Icloud service (who then claim ownership) and then somehow disseminated be expected to retain rights over those photos, especially when they are in the business of being a public figure- which is to ask legitimately how much rights does a public figure have of their image and how far can they actually go to control it, never mind the illegal means which said photos were retrieved….
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