In a major blow against Internet privacy, a trove of nude photos — including celebrities such as Jennifer Lawrence and swimsuit supermodel Kate Upton — was leaked online Sunday.
The massive stash of A-list celebrities’ naked and intimate pics was posted on the Web site 4chan by a hacker who apparently broke into Apple’s iCloud storage system.
Afterward, the images quickly spread online through sites such as Reddit and Imgur.
At least one actress admitted in a scathing Twitter post that the images were authentic.
“To those of you looking at photos I took with my husband years ago in the privacy of our home, hope you feel great about yourselves,” Mary Elizabeth Winstead tweeted.
“Knowing those photos were deleted long ago, I can only imagine the creepy effort that went into this. Feeling for everyone who got hacked.”
Victoria Justice, meanwhile, who is known for her role in the Nickelodeon series “Victorious,” claimed the images weren’t real.
“These so called nudes of me are FAKE people. Let me nip this in the bud right now. *pun intended*” the 21-year-old actress wrote on Twitter.
Other celebs whose private images appear to have been leaked are Ariana Grande, Kirsten Dunst, Victoria Justice, Kaley Cuoco from “The Big Bang Theory” and Jessica Brown Findlay, who plays Lady Sybil on “Downton Abbey.”
A rep for Lawrence called the images a “flagrant violation of privacy.”
One image of Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Upton even appears to show a bare-bottomed shot of her boyfriend, Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander.
A purported “master list” of the hacking victims also claims to include Rihanna and Kim Kardashian, according to BuzzFeed.