Some 50 celebrities have reportedly had their personal computers and phones hacked into — with personal information and compromising pictures stolen — as the FBI continues to investigate the matter.
The list of celebrities who had personal information stolen includes Vanessa Hudgens, Ali Larter, Busy Phillips, Scarlett Johansson, Miley Cyrus, Emma Caulfield, Addison Timlin, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Jessica Alba, Christina Aguilera and Renee Olstead, TMZ.com reported.
This comes as the FBI sat with Hudgens today for more than an hour to determine how hewr Gmail account was hacked, the celebrity website also reported.
The FBI is conducting a wide-ranging investigation into a ring of hackers, and agents believe all of the hacked celebrity accounts trace back to one person, possibly the ringleader, sources tell TMZ.
Johansson had a nude picture hacked from her iPhone, the site reported.
The ring has been trying to sell some of the photos and video to various Internet sites and others, but the primary motivation is not money, but just the excitement of hacking itself.
Photos of a woman who looks like Hudgens were distributed across the Internet earlier this week. In them, she is kissing another woman who looks like Hudgens’ friend, Disney star Alexa Nikolas.
Hudgens had full frontal nude photos she took privately with a cell phone released in 2007 and again in 2009. She said she was “embarrassed” about those earlier photos.
With Fox News