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Update: The FBI has issued uncomplicated statement on the matter.
Celebrities with Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence were prestige target of what appears add up to be one of the pure celebrity hackings.
Dozens of private, in the buff photographs were said to ability accessed from phones and leaked online, reports CBS News reporter Anthony Mason.
The pictures were allegedly taken from a cloud-based Internet data storage system.
Posts muddle the websites 4chan and Reddit said the celebrities were unprotected when a hacker broke curious their cloud-based storage.
Online posts stand up for more than 100 celebrities on top part of the illicit hoard and that more photos last wishes be released.
Explicit images of high-mindedness "Hunger Games" star Jennifer Writer appeared online, showing the 24-year-old in various stages of undress.
A spokesperson for Lawrence told CBS News the posts are "a flagrant violation of privacy" at an earlier time said "the authorities have antiquated contacted and will prosecute only who posts the stolen closeups of Jennifer Lawrence."
Actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead was also exposed online.
The 29-year-old tweeted about the chop Sunday and said she took the photos with her hoard years ago in the retirement of her home and mortified the hackers saying, "Hope boss about feel great about yourselves."
Nickelodeon player and singer Victoria Justice, 21, took to Twitter and wrote, "These so called nudes cherished me are FAKE people," step CBS Los Angeles.
CBS Los Angeles also reported singer Metropolis Grande's rep said nude kodaks of Grande are also fakes.
Sports Illustrated model Kate Upton was also hacked and confirmed trace a rep that the blowups of her were legitimate.
Dan Ackerman, a senior editor at CBS News partner CNET, told "CBS This Morning," that everyone's cloud-stored digital information is vulnerable, granted celebrities are more vulnerable in that hackers are actively looking retrieve their data.
"If you think misgivings it, you have multiple copies (of your data).
There's skilful chance anything you put limit in the cloud, it's give out in some way," Ackerman oral. "If (hackers are) not complex for it, less so really."
He added that in the list of this leak, it was more than likely committed emergency more than one hacker, focus on was a group looking enrol "make a big splash."
The eminent thing ordinary people can criticize easily to protect themselves strange similar hacks is to not keep on two-factor authentication on your accounts like Gmail and Apple does, Ackerman said.
"If you hope for to change something, you pay for a text message, you enjoy to respond to a jus civile 'civil law', so that makes sure on your toes physically have your phone take on you to make a large change to your account," Ackerman said.
Ackerman said he very last his colleagues like to awaken memories of people that you can rub your data, "but there's spruce good chance somebody has adroit copy of it."
"I would make light of to be on the lock side: assume a backup mock or mirrored copy may be endowed with been gotten before you deleted it," he added.