--- title: Hackers Leak Private, Explicit Photos of More Than 100 Celebrities description: Jennifer Lawrence, Selena Gomez and Kirsten Dunst are among an estimated 100 celebrities whose private photos were leaked online Sunday canonical: https://time.com/3246562/hackers-jennifer-lawrence-cloud-data/ author: Dan Kedmey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-01T14:42:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:03:04.252Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Hackers Leak Private, Explicit Photos of More Than 100 Celebrities og:description: Jennifer Lawrence, Selena Gomez and Kirsten Dunst are among an estimated 100 celebrities whose private photos were leaked online Sunday og:url: https://time.com/3246562/hackers-jennifer-lawrence-cloud-data/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt129bde96887b6f0f/6986a194e8524b0f786047ef/jennifer-lawrence.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Jennifer Lawrence og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hackers Leak Private, Explicit Photos of More Than 100 Celebrities twitter:description: Jennifer Lawrence, Selena Gomez and Kirsten Dunst are among an estimated 100 celebrities whose private photos were leaked online Sunday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt129bde96887b6f0f/6986a194e8524b0f786047ef/jennifer-lawrence.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hackers Leak Explicit Photos of More Than 100 Celebrities  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Sep 1, 2014 2:42 PM CUT  Jennifer Lawrence attends the Christian Dior show in Paris, in July 2014. Jennifer Lawrence attends the Christian Dior show in Paris, in July 2014.Pascal Le Segretain—Getty Images  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Sep 1, 2014 2:42 PM CUT Jennifer Lawrence, Selena Gomez and Kirsten Dunst were among an estimated 100 celebrities alleged to have private and explicit photos leaked online Sunday, after hackers apparently accessed their cellphones through a cloud-based storage network. The photographs originally turned up on the website 4chan, where hackers claimed to have infiltrated the phones of more than 100 celebrities and promised to leak more images in the future. The pictures were reportedly stolen from a cloud-based data storage network. Some posters claimed it was Apple’s iCloud system that was hacked, [Mashable reports](http://mashable.com/2014/08/31/celebrity-nude-photo-hack/ "undefined"), though the company has not confirmed those rumors. A spokesperson for Lawrence acknowledged the authenticity of the images, calling it a “flagrant violation of privacy” and vowing to prosecute anyone who shared the images online. “The authorities have been contacted and will prosecute anyone who posts the stolen photos of Jennifer Lawrence,” the spokesperson said in a statement, _People Magazine_ reports. Actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead lambasted both the people who posted and viewed the images, which she said were taken in the privacy of her home with her husband. > [](https://twitter.com/M%5FE%5FWinstead/status/506198161811992576) Nickelodeon star Victoria Justice denied the authenticity of the images, accusing hackers of doctoring images. > [](https://twitter.com/VictoriaJustice/status/506197183742222336) McKayla Maroney, the teenage gymnast who won Olympic gold medals in the team and vault competitions in 2012, also tweeted that images of her were faked. Like Winstead, she had a message for the hackers: > [](https://twitter.com/McKaylaMaroney/status/506356524915388416) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3246562/hackers-jennifer-lawrence-cloud-data/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3246562/hackers-jennifer-lawrence-cloud-data/"},"headline":"Hackers Leak Explicit Photos of More Than 100 Celebrities","datePublished":"2014-09-01T14:42:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:03:04.252Z","description":"Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton among the victims of hacking from a cloud-based data storage network","url":"https://time.com/3246562/hackers-jennifer-lawrence-cloud-data/","keywords":["celebrities","Tech","privacy","Hack"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt129bde96887b6f0f/6986a194e8524b0f786047ef/jennifer-lawrence.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Kedmey","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt129bde96887b6f0f/6986a194e8524b0f786047ef/jennifer-lawrence.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jennifer Lawrence","caption":"Jennifer Lawrence attends the Christian Dior show in Paris, in July 2014.","creditText":"Pascal Le Segretain—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3246562/hackers-jennifer-lawrence-cloud-data/","name":"Hackers Leak Explicit Photos of More Than 100 Celebrities"}}]}] ```