Pippa Middleton's iCloud account hacked, with thousands of private photos stolen
UPDATE: Sept. 26, 2016, 1:47 p.m. EDT London police arrested a man in connection with the hacking who was freed on bail Sunday.
Pippa Middleton, the sister of Kate Middleton the Duchess of Cambridge, has had her iCloud account hacked and thousands of private photographs stolen, according to The Independent.
The information retrieved is believed to include personal photos of the royal family and of Middleton with her fiancé James Matthews.
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The publication noted Middleton's lawyers confirmed her account has been accessed and that her and Matthews have requested their privacy to be respected.
The royal correspondent for the Daily Mail reported that 3,000 photos had been taken from Middleton's account and a person going by the name "mas" was attempting to sell them to media organizations.
On Sunday The Associated Press reported that London police arrested a 35-year-old man in connection with the hacking after The Sun newspaper the hacker attempted to sell it the illegally acquired images for a minimum of 50,000 pounds ($65,000).
The Sun said the hacker went by the name "Crafty Cockney" and claimed to possess a number of Middleton's personal photos with family along with and naked pictures of her fiancé, James Matthews.
The most notable hacks of this kind happened in 2014, when celebrities such as Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Kirsten Dunst had their information stolen, including nude photographs, via an iCloud hack.
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