Naked photos of 101 various celebrities including the likes of Jennifer Lawerence, Kate Upton and Mary E. Winstead were leaked online through the anonymous forum known as ‘4chan’  by alleged, un-named hackers who apparently used ‘Brute force‘ to hack into the celebrities iCloud account to gain access to all of their pictures uploaded to the cloud.

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.

— Mary E. Winstead (@M_E_Winstead) August 31, 2014

Knowing those photos were deleted long ago, I can only imagine the creepy effort that went into this. Feeling for everyone who got hacked.

— Mary E. Winstead (@M_E_Winstead) August 31, 2014

Although so many celebrities private pictures were leaked, it is speculated that even more are to come as they have been claimed to be acquired by one of the hackers however they are yet to be circulated online. Jennifer Lawerence’s representative confirmed the authenticity of the images and said that they leaked photos are “A flagrant violation of privacy”. 

Legal action is being taken with these photographs at the request of various victims, the FBI is now involved and has said that any one posting these stolen pictures will be prosecuted.