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Aug 31, 2014 · Beginning Sunday night, a massive quantity of nude and risqué photos that appeared to be of huge stars such as Jennifer Lawrence, Ariana Grande, Victoria Justice, and Kate Upton leaked online, first appearing on the /b/ thread on 4chan (NSFW link).
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"The Fappening" is a jocular portmanteau coined by combining the words "fap", an internet slang term for masturbation, and the title of the 2008 film The Happening. Though the term is a vulgarism originating either with the imageboards where the pictures were initially posted or Reddit, mainstream media outlets soon adopted the term themselves, suc...
The images were obtained via the online storage offered by Apple's iCloud platform for automatically backing up photos from iOS devices, such as iPhones. Apple later reported that the victims' iCloud account information was obtained using "a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions", such as phishing and brute-force atta...
The original release contained photos and videos of more than 100 individuals that were allegedly obtained from file storage on hacked iCloud accounts, including some the leakers claimed were A-list celebrities. Shortly after the photos were leaked, several affected celebrities issued statements either confirming or denying the photos' authenticity...
Actress Lena Dunham pleaded on Twitter for people not to view the photos, arguing that in doing so "you are violating these women over and over again. It's not okay." Actress Emma Watson condemned not only the leak but "the accompanying comments [on social media] that show such a lack of empathy." Actors Seth Rogen and Lucas Neff also spoke out aga...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it was "aware of the allegations concerning computer intrusions and the unlawful release of material involving high profile individuals, and is addressing the matter". Similarly, Apple stated that it had been investigating whether a security breach of the iCloud service was responsible for the leaked photogr...
Romero, Angie (September 1, 2014). "Full list of celebrities affected by nude photo leak". Variety. ISSN 0042-2738. OCLC 810134503. Archived from the original on April 15, 2023. Retrieved June 26,...
A hacker dropped dozens of nude images of the Oscar-winning actress and other stars online. The leak appears to have originated on 4chan and quickly made the rounds on Reddit, Twitter, Imgur, and...
Aug 30, 2014 · Most of these photos can be found on Reddit’s r/celebs and Imgur. According to the 4chan user, the photos appear to have been obtained through the iCloud accounts of these celebs.
Sep 20, 2014 · Newly released hacked photos of celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence and Kim Kardashian hit the Internet Saturday morning as the celebrity nudes scandal known as Celebgate returns in a second...
Copyright complaints apparently prompted the removal of the image from sharing site Imgur.com and rendered links on the social networking site Reddit inoperable in what experts call an online...
