Emma Watson and Amanda Seyfried's personal pictures stolen in celebrity photo hack
It's a big week for Emma Watson with her much-anticipated live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast coming out, but a celebrity photo hack is attempting to shift the spotlight.
Dozens of photos from a private session with a stylist were stolen and posted online, the BBC confirmed Wednesday. None of the photos were nude, her publicist said, and the actress is taking legal action over the hack.
The Beauty and the Beast actress was not the only victim. Amanda Seyfried was reportedly hacked as well, only her stolen photos included nude shots and "intimate moments" with a former partner.
In a letter from Seyfried's lawyers that TMZ posted, it explains that the images were leaked and "wrongfully obtained by a third party or parties without Ms. Seyfried’s knowledge or consent."
The letter demands the photos be removed from a fake celebrity gossip website.
It seems as though the rash of leaked photos that started on Reddit and 4chan this week is part of the crudely named "The Fappening 2.0," which is a reference to the celebrity photo-hacking scandal from 2014.
Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
