Last year the FBI launched a major investigation into a hacker that had hacked into the email accounts of Renee Olstead, Blake Lively, Scarlett Johansson and Vanessa Hudgens (maybe Kat Dennings too) so that he could leak nude photos of them online. In October of 2011 the FBI finally arrested Christopher Chaney of Jacksonville, Florida and charged him with hacking into the email accounts of those female celebrities but it hasn’t stopped celebrities from getting exposed in nude photo scandals as we’re now seeing a new round of nude photo leaks hitting the web.
Olivia Munn and Christina Hendricks are the newest female celebrities (if you want to call them that) to get exposed in nude photo scandals, which naturally makes us question whether or not the FBI really put an end to the problems we’ve been seeing with female celebrities getting exposed in nude photo scandals.
While most people think these photo leaks are all somehow related to criminal activity, we’ve recently seen AnnaLynne McCord, Hayley Williams, CoCo, Adrianne Curry and Tawny Kitaen accidentally publish nude/topless photos of themselves to Twitter… These “photo leaks” happened because the celebrities in question made the mistake of publishing the nude/topless photos themselves to Twitter and it did not involve any type of criminal activity.
Back in 2009, Ashley Greene suffered a nude photo leak before the release of Twilight: New Moon because she sent nude photos of herself to her boyfriend and then he leaked them onto the internet (there is speculation that Ashley may have leaked the photos herself in an attempt to boost her popularity and get paid more money for making the rest of the Twilight movies). Like AnnaLynne McCord, Hayley Williams and CoCo, these nude photos of Ashley Greene were not stolen but in fact leaked by someone that she had sent the photos to.
Early last year we saw another scandal involving an Indonesian celebrity named Tarra Nadhira Hindersah after she accidentally published explicit nude photos of herself to her Facebook account. Once again these photos were not stolen, they were uploaded by Tarra and went viral as soon as people saw them.
All these “accidental” nude photo leaks naturally make me question whether or not the FBI really solved the problem. While the FBI was able to put Christopher Chaney on ice it certainly hasn’t stopped female celebrities from getting exposed in nude photo scandals and while the FBI claimed it was illegal for Chris to hack into their email accounts it isn’t deemed illegal for these other female celebrities to continue attention whoring by “accidentally” publishing nude photos of themselves to websites/services that claim publishing those types of photos is a violation of their Terms of Use.
We’ve now seen multiple instances where female celebrities have exposed themselves to millions of people (including children) and they’ve suffered no legal penalties for doing it. Am I the only one that thinks some of these female celebrities should suffer legal penalties for “accidentally” exposing themselves to the public. If they did it while walking down the street they could legally get into trouble but as long as they go online and do it over the internet there appears to be no type of penalty.
Don’t get me wrong, I love seeing all these photos of female celebrities showing off their naked bodies and hope they continue to do it… I just think it might be time to start questioning the manner they do it in since most times they do it they are actually exposing themselves to children (do that in the real world and you suffer very serious consequences).