Tiger Woods and Katharine McPhee also hacked

Aug 22, 2017 09:45 GMT  ·  By

Nude photos of several celebrities have been posted online, including Kristen Stewart, Miley Cyrus, Tiger Woods, and Katharine McPhee, with the last two threatening to sue everyone who decides to publish them on their websites.

The list of hacked stars whose pictures ended up online also includes Lindsey Vonn and Stella Maxwell, as well as Anne Hathaway, who got hacked a few days ago and her photos were also posted online.

Once again, it’s not exactly clear how the hackers managed to extract the X-rated photos from the devices belonging to these celebrities, but there’s a chance it all happened due to weak passwords or successful phishing attacks that had the stars provide their credentials on fake websites looking legitimate.

The original Fappening scandal, which took place in 2014 and impacted a long list of celebrities, was based on a hack targeting Apple’s iCloud, with the photos taken with iPhones and then uploaded to the cloud, most likely automatically.

Threatening to sue

TMZ reports that in the case of the hack affecting Tiger Woods this week, a breach of a device was also at fault, though it looks like it was actually Lindsey Vonn’s phone that got compromised. The source reports that there’s a chance Tiger himself sent the nude photo to Vonn when they were dating, and following the breach, the content got posted online because it wasn’t deleted from the device.

Tiger Woods has already contacted attorney Michael Holtz to go after anyone posting the photos online. Katharine McPhee also appointed a lawyer and is ready to sue websites posting the pics.

It goes without saying that fighting against the Internet is quite mission impossible, and several websites have already posted the photos, though it remains to be seen if they remove the X-rated content after receiving the threatening letters from the celebrities’ lawyers.

In the meantime, the best thing they could do is secure their phones, as such leaks wouldn’t have happened if proper account and device security was in place.