Mary Winstead, Victoria Justice, Ricky Gervais, Other Celebs Tweet Back After Nude Photos Stolen From Apple's iCloud
(CBS SF) -- Celebrities raged on Twitter Monday after hackers flooded the Internet with nude photos of everyone from Kim Kardashian to Jennifer Lawrence, Rihana, Ariana Grande, Kate Upton and Selena Gomez, apparently obtained from an attack on Apple's iCloud online storage.
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Some celebrities claim the naked photos out there are fakes, but many others confirmed the photos are real, and are demanding legal action.
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The Tweet from actress Mary Winstead described the situation well, "Knowing those photos were deleted long ago, I can only imagine the creepy effort that went into this. Feeling for everyone who got hacked."
Earlier, she had tweeted to vent her anger:
Finally, she decided to take a break from the chaos online.
Meanwhile, other stars like Victoria Justice, claim the photos of her are fake.
These so called nudes of me are FAKE people. Let me nip this in the bud right now. *pun intended*
— Victoria Justice (@VictoriaJustice) August 31, 2014
She retweeted another post showing what she feels was manipulation of an old photo.
GUYD WE ARE SO STUPID THE VICTORIA JUSTICE NUDES ARE FAKE, LOOK. CLEARLY AN OLD PICTURE OF HER EDITED & FLIPPED. pic.twitter.com/T9cayuc2ZI
— domi (@justicecosgrove) August 31, 2014
2012 Olympic Medalist, gymnast McKayla Maroney also said her photos were fakes:
shout out to my fans for defending me all day long.. even when things got weird u stood by me. and that meant the world????????
— mckayla (@McKaylaMaroney) September 1, 2014
Actor and director Lena Dunham may have summed up the whole problem with one simple tweet overnight:
The "don't take naked pics if you don't want them online" argument is the "she was wearing a short skirt" of the web. Ugh.
— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) September 1, 2014
Comedian Ricky Gervais couldn't help making light of the situation, but caught plenty of flack. The first tweet is his joke, followed by several responses.
Anyone who retweets this leaked erotic photo of me should be ashamed of themselves. pic.twitter.com/p2KBa6serK
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) August 31, 2014
It's more important to spend your energy trying to stop actual bad things than to run around trying to stop jokes about bad things.
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) September 1, 2014
Whenever I defend freedom of speech someone always says "so you'd let Hitler off?" Haha. It wasn't his words so much as all that genocide.
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) September 1, 2014
Making a joke about a thing doesn't mean you condone that thing.
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) September 1, 2014
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