Second batch of nude Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian pictures leaked after hack attack
More nude celebrity photos, purportedly including Jennifer Lawrence and Kim Kardashian, have circulated on social media in what appears to be the second hacking-related leak in under a month.
More nude celebrity photos, purportedly including reality TV star Kim Kardashian, have circulated on social media, in what appears to be the second hacking-related leak in less than a month.
The pictures, which also included nude shots of actress Vanessa Hudgens and US soccer star Hope Solo, appeared briefly on 4chan and Reddit on Saturday, before being removed, celebrity gossip site TMZ reported.
BuzzFeed said that personal videos and photos belonging to actresses Aubrey Plaza, Mary-Kate Olsen, Hayden Panettiere and Leelee Sobieski were posted, in addition to previously unseen pictures of Jennifer Lawrence.
Hackers first released a trove of nude starlets' photos, including Lawrence and model Kate Upton, on September 1, after snatching them from Apple's iCloud in what the tech giant has called a "targeted attack".
The company has denied its cloud storage system was breached, suggesting that the celebrities had their accounts hacked by using easy-to-guess passwords, or by giving up their personal data to cybercriminals posing as Apple, a technique known as "phishing".
In addition to Lawrence, celebrities whose pictures were allegedly stolen and posted online in early September included model Kate Upton, singer Avril Lavigne and actress Gabrielle Union.