14 DAY TRIAL // Despite efforts to remove photos from the celebrity-focused hacking incident that occurred in September, echoes of the deed continue as an unknown individual decided to deface Jennifer Lawrence's Wikipedia page by uploading one of the nude pics that had been previously leaked.
At 21:52 UTC on Tuesday, someone uploaded an image of the actress not suitable for Wikipedia. The name of the pic was preserved, but the content was one of the leaked photos.
The Wikipedia page showed the inappropriate content for about 20 minutes, and then it was edited and returned to a more suitable state.
At the moment, editing the space dedicated to Jennifer Lawrence on Wikipedia benefits from semi-protection, on account of vandalism; only users from the so-called “autoconfirmed” group can now make changes.
According to Wikipedia, these are users with a Wikipedia account older than four days and made at least ten edits. The semi-protection has been set to expire on March 25, 2015.
It appears that the wrong-doer made two attempts to publish the compromising image. The first time the photo was deleted after 14 minutes, while the second time it survived for four minutes.
A Wikimedia Foundation representative explained to Kate Dries from Jezebel that the abuse was carried out by someone appearing as a legitimate editor but with multiple accounts set up particularly for improper use; this form of abuse (the general rule is “one editor, one account”) is called sock puppetry.