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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 " or " Celebgate " by the public.
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- Pleaded guilty
The majority of posting on 4chan takes place on imageboards, on which users have the ability to share images and create threaded discussions. [6] [7] As of August 2022, the site's homepage lists 75 imageboards and one Flash animation board.
- English
- Christopher Poole
- October 1, 2003; 20 years ago
- Hiroyuki Nishimura
The Fappening. On August 31, 2014, a collection of almost 500 private pictures of many celebrities, mostly women, and with many having their nudes, were posted on the imageboard 4chan, and later shared by other users on websites and social networks such as Imgur and Reddit.
4chan is an English language website based on the Japanese Futaba Channel where people can post and discuss pictures and other images. Sites such as these are called imageboards. It was started in 2003 by "moot" also known as Christopher Poole, who was 15 years old at the time.
- English
- Hiroyuki Nishimura
- Yes
- Imageboard
On April 5, an anonymous user on the /pol/ imageboard on 4chan posted several images of the documents, with that user's documents circulating via pro-Russian Telegram channels. One such channel, "Donbass Devushka", republished these images.
Nov 8, 2014 · Hackers deposited nude celebrity photos on the site over the summer. It’s also the birthplace of the hacker collective Anonymous, along with countless funny Internet memes and harmless pranks on...
Aug 31, 2015 · On August 31 last year, hundreds of explicit images of some of Hollywood's most famous stars were posted to several forum websites anonymously after hackers broke into the iCloud accounts of more than 500 people, predominantly celebrities. A piece of computer code that repeatedly guessed common passwords is said to have been used in the attack.
