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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.
Dozens of celebrities were exposed when hacker Ryan Collins accessed explicit images through Gmail accounts and Apple iCloud through a phishing scheme and leaked them online.
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- ‘I Became The Enemy’
- Intimidation Pushback
Until the jacuzzi photos were posted online, Oueiss said she had worked hard to maintain a professional public image as a serious journalist. She would only post photos of herself wearing a jacket and avoided doing interviews about her personal life. “They wanted to destroy the image of Ghada, the serious journalist who is not afraid to ask tough q...
Amnesty International is calling on governments to issue a moratoriumon the export, sale and use of surveillance technology like Pegasus until there is a human-rights-compliant regulatory framework in place. “There are certainly legitimate uses to this technology,” Abdul Rahim said, referring to law enforcement using the technology with judicial ov...
Alya Alhwaiti, an activist and former professional equestrian from Saudi Arabia who now lives in London, said she believes she was also targeted in a hack-and-leak attack using NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. In 2018, her phone started behaving strangely: The device often froze. She received calls from strange numbers and occasionally messages appeare...
Another alleged victim of this kind of attack was Alaa al-Siddiq, 33, an Emirati activist and executive director of human rights group ALQST. Al-Siddiq’s phone started acting up in 2020 and she became concerned that she had been hacked like other prominent female activists, according to her co-worker Josh Cooper, deputy director of ALQST. She told ...
Mar 23, 2017 · Emma Watson and Amanda Seyfried, two actresses who have been vocal about feminist issues in the past, have had private photos targeted by hackers reportedly published on the dark web, and...
Mar 1, 2018 · The Fappening refers to an event that began on August 31, 2014 when an iCloud hack resulted in nude photos of dozens of celebrities to be released online.
Sep 2, 2014 · The FBI looks into allegations that the online accounts of celebrities have been hacked, leading to intimate pictures being posted online.
Sep 1, 2014 · In response to what has been described as the biggest celebrity hacking scandal in history, Hollywood stars who have seen private photos of themselves leaked online have turned to social...
