Explicit images appearing to show pop princess Rihanna in the buff have been leaked and are circulating on 4Chan.
Although
it has not been confirmed that the photos show Rihanna, the images,
seen by Mirror Celeb, show a woman with a striking resemblance to the
Barbadian beauty standing completely naked with her back to the camera.
The
woman stands with her hand on her head, revealing a trail of star
tattoos - identical to those of the popstar- spiralling down her back.
Ri Ri has yet to respond to the photo and we've contacted her reps for comment.
The Pour it Up singer isn't the only star to be targeted by hackers this weekend.
Nudes
alleging to show Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Hudgens, Hayden Panettiere,
and a whole host of other a-list stars have been circulating the web -
in what is thought to be the second attack of the iPhone hackers.
The
latest photo hacking scandal stems from an original leak - nicknamed
''The Fappening'' - that happened in August when photos were posted on a
anonymous site 4chan by users to earn bitcoins.
Jennifer Lawrence
and Kate Upton were among the first victims and the Hunger Games star
appears in new snaps shared today showing her naked and wearing just a
denim shirt.
There seems to be no end in sight for celebrities this season, as the
“third round” of nude photo leaks adds top model Cara Delevingne,
actress Anna Kendrick and more of Jennifer Lawrence to the mix.
The FBI promised earlier in the week to widen its probe into the
leaks after new nude images of celebrities Kim Kardashian, Vaness
Hudgens and others popped up online. It launched an investigation
in the aftermath of the first leak linked to a security flaw in
Apple’s iCloud file storage service, but has so far come up
empty.
Nude photos of 'The Hunger Games' star Jennifer Lawrence were the
most-coveted part of the initial mass pictures dump.
This Friday, however, a newer leak surfaced on the online
communities Reddit and 4chan, exposing, among many others,
superstar model Cara Delevingne, actress Anna Kendrick and
T-Mobile ad star and top model Carly Foulkes. Other celebrities
exposed include three-time Olympic gold medalist Misty
May-Treanor, a host of other soap opera and movie actresses – and
topping that are 55 more images of Jennifer Lawrence.
Kendrick appears clothed in all images, though some describe the
party photos as containing revealing outfits.
The Friday leak was accompanied by a circulating online video,
showing off what’s yet to come. An anonymous narrator is heard
saying that there are “plenty of links left,” as
numerous rows of presumably yet-to-be-leaked files appear
onscreen.
While the first nude picture batch came as a shock to many fans,
it appears that the reaction to new leaks is getting milder. Some
people sarcastically described it as 'The Fappening 3,' a word
play on the 2009 thriller movie referring to a slang term for
male masturbation.
The investigation, meanwhile, can’t really touch iCloud, as the
only criticism leveled at it so far appears to be that you can
try getting to the password an infinite number of times by, by
trying out endless combinations of security question answers and
leaving it more exposed to brute force hacking. The Apple online
storage service, however, continues to be the main culprit here,
according to experts and critics.
The suspicions regarding weak security appeared to have been
confirmed Wednesday, when The Daily Dot uncovered an email
exchange between Apple and a security researcher, Ibrahim Balic,
who warned the company of the brute force-hacking problem.
The exchange reportedly went on from March through May, and
featured Apple disagreeing with Balic’s findings, which he also
reported through the tech giant’s online bug submission board.
