Actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead was hacked along with Jennifer Lawrence today, and private photos of her surfaced.
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In the latest case of celebrity hacking, Mary went on Twitter and confirmed that those were indeed her pictures.
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
She then brings up the effort that it takes to create such a hack.
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
While it is still unclear exactly how these pictures surfaced online, Buzzfeed has reportedly traced the images back to 4Chan, a popular image based bulletin board system that is mostly used anonymously.
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