14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this week, a scan of the cover of the upcoming Playboy issue with Lindsay Lohan emerged online, on Twitter. Shortly after, the entire spread leaked, sending the magazine boss Hugh Hefner into a fury, since the issue wasn’t supposed to come out for weeks.
As we also informed you yesterday, the entire 10-photo pictorial plus the interview became available online, even if the issue was not meant to come out for several weeks more.
Hugh Hefner himself said that the issue would be released earlier than anticipated – and, as a matter of fact, it’s already available at the official Playboy page.
This may as well mean that the person (partly) responsible for the leak is in the clear. The hacker who got his hands on the spread and put it online is speaking out, saying in an interview this isn’t the first time he’s done something like this, the Daily Mail informs.
However, he insists, he’s only responsible for putting together the spread, not for obtaining it from Playboy.
He says that someone (not himself) stole the photos and uploaded them onto a file-sharing website based in Russia.
He just downloaded them from there and put them together to create an exact digital replica of the print issue, since the photos were scans of the print mag.
“I just pieced it together. All I cared about is how I got them. When I've done it before, Playboy sent an e-mail to take down the links, and I do,” he says via a translator, on the condition of anonymity.
As noted above, since the massive leak, Playboy has made the online version of the issue available online. It will also come out in print on December 15.
At the same time, to minimize the impact of the leak, the mag has also sent high quality copies of the cover, together with excerpts from the interview to various media outlets.
In the interview, Lohan compares herself to Marilyn Monroe and recalls her wild days of when she was 18-19, saying she should have listened to the concerned adults around her.