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Chinese Media Publish Hacked Nude Celebrity Photos

Posted: 09/3/2014 9:23 am

paparazziIt may have taken a while for the ALS ice bucket challenge to infiltrate China, but there’s no such delay on news that naked photographs of female Western stars have been leaked online.

Sina Entertainment wants to ensure Chinese readers fully understand the complexities of this scandal by publishing these nude photos, albeit lightly harmonized with mosaic censoring.

The flip side is many people in China haven’t heard of these stars. Here’s the Sina Entertainment post from yesterday (emphasis added):

hacked hollywood nudes

#Hollywood Sexy Photos-gate
Second crop of nude photographs of “cousins” have been revealed [breakdown.emo]

At present, a spokesperson for Jennifer Lawrence has confirmed that she will take legal measures against the person responsible. Also involved with the scandal are Spider-Man actress Kirsten Dunst and milkshake supermodel Kate Upton among many.

The person identified in the scandalous photos is Kiki Dunst, not Kirsten Dunst. All the same, there may be a correlation between Upton and milkshakes for which Sina may explain later.

READ: Guangdong official sacked over nude photos published by mistress

Sina Entertainment then informed us that there may be more news in the future by calculating the number of people left who have yet to have their privacy violated:

hacked hollywood nudes

#Hollywood Sexy Photos-gate
May involve up to a hundred celebrities; Avril (Lavigne) and others on list [surprise.emo]
Leaked nude photographs of female stars have shocked the world, but the amount that was revealed yesterday is just the tip of the iceberg! Popular singers Rihanna, Avril (Lavigne), celebrity Scarlett Johannson, and (Johnny) Depp’s fiancee Amber Heard are among the people in the collection of photographs. There are a total of 101 female celebrities upon this list. There already have been 17 people exposed, making for 84 people who have yet to be exposed. 

However, if you’re wondering how pictures of naked people (famous or non-famous) can be published in China when all pornography is illegal, this latest update seems to say it’s okay if they are hacked by foreigners:

#Hollywood Sex Photos-gate;
May involve up to a hundred celebrities; FBI, Apple to make investigations

A sensation was exposed world-wide on Sept 1. A foreign hacker had exploited a loophole in the Apple iCloud service to illegally obtain naked pictures of several famous female movie stars. A netizen had posted a screenshot of the desktop of the suspected leaker of the photographs in which a full list of the celebrities photographed naked can be seen. Added up, this list of female celebrities numbers 101 people.

China has been accused of being involved in the use of computer hackers from countries like Canada and the United States, though it’s not known if they too have illegally obtained nude photos of celebrities.

READ: Married man uses nude photo to blackmail 14 year-old
Guangdong girl into bed

Comments by Chinese netizens regarding this international news article include the following:

朱权鑫:
To this unscrupulous hacker, I would like to say: you have done well.

韩风旭日:
So, it turns out that Edison Chen is in line with the rest of the world after all.

郭鼠儿:
What kind of sex scandal is this? These pictures were taken by these people themselves and put on their own phones, which were hacked. Once disseminated, this internet security can’t be relied upon at all… These hackers are too perverted. If you want to see for yourself, then go ahead; but if for these photos to start spreading virally…

Jerry行走在路上:
Upon seeing our national headlines have all been taken over by Chinese entertainment circles, I am humiliated to the point of anger. You’re pushing your luck, female foreign celebrities!

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Photos: Sina Entertainment (2, 3), Wishwantwear

Haohao

Mistress publishes nude photos of allegedly corrupt Guangdong official

Posted: 01/30/2014 7:00 am

One of the photos, courtesy of Nandu Daily

An investigation is being launched in Zhaoqing’s Duanzhou district after a woman claiming to be an official’s mistress published nude photos of him online and alleged he embezzled public funds and is involved in gambling, China Daily reported yesterday.

The paper has more:

The findings about Du Weijun, director of the Duanzhou district bureau of culture, will be made public, the authorities said.

The nude photos have been forwarded to the Guangdong provincial department of public security for further identification, according to the report.

The woman who published the photos said Du promised he would dump his wife to marry her, gave her more than 20,000 yuan ($3,252) a month as an allowance and used money he embezzled to operate a company. Du left her for another woman thus she wanted revenge so reported him, she said.

This is the latest of many nude photo scandals that have involved government officials in China. Earlier this month, the vice president of a Chinese school training Communist Party officials was suspended for his involvement in a sex scandal after nude photos of him appeared online.

There but for the grace of God go many others. Broadly speaking, the five ways of dealing with a nude photo scandal are to deny it, ignore it, embrace it, apologise for it, and leverage it. E online has the full guide.

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