The hacker said that he or she leaked nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Victoria Justice, Kate Upton, Ariana Grande, Teresa Palmer, Hope Solo, Krysten Ritter, and many more celebrities in a major hacking..
The 4chan user claims to have more than 60 nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence alone, as well as an explicit video of the actor.
Hollywood Gossip reports the photos, which allegedly show Lawrence in various states of undress, were leaked today by an anonymous source.
A rep for Jennifer Lawrence confirmed that the images, allegedly stolen from her iCloud account, are real.
This is a flagrant violation of privacy," the spokesperson told HuffPost. "The authorities have been contacted and will prosecute anyone who posts the stolen photos of Jennifer Lawrence.
Within seconds of the images appearing on the internet, Jennifer Lawrence began trending on Twitter.
Perez Hilton published the uncensored images of Lawrence and Price but has since deleted them. Even the censored versions he replaced them with.
The LA Police Department told HuffPost that they have "no knowledge" of the hacking "at this time."
HuffPost also reached out to FBI and Apple to confirm the hacking, but did not receive an immediate response.
More than 100 A-Listers are alleged to have been targeted by an online hacker, who shared the photos online.
Responses from any of the other celebs:
- Victoria Justice, who was also targeted in the hack, said that the photos aren't real. "These so called nudes of me are FAKE people," she said. "Let me nip this in the bud right now. *pun intended*"
- A rep for Ariana Grande told BuzzFeed that the photos of her are "completely fake."
- Mary Winstead confirmed the photos of her were real, writing: "Knowing those photos were deleted long ago, I can only imagine the creepy effort that went into this. Feeling for everyone who got hacked. To those of you looking at photos I took with my husband years ago in the privacy of our home, hope you feel great about yourselves."
- Other celebrities affected have yet to comment, and for now the rest of the photos are unverified.