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It's been nearly three years since nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence were plastered on the Internet, but the actress is still reeling from the infamous leak.
While appearing on The Hollywood Reporte r podcast Awards Chatter on Monday, the m other! star said the hack, which was dubbed the Fappening, felt like she got "gangbanged by the fucking planet."
"There's not one person in the world that is not capable of seeing these intimate photos of me. You can just be at a barbecue, and somebody can just pull them up on their phone. That was a really impossible thing to process," she explained. "When I first found out it was happening, my security reached out to me. It was happening minute to minute—it was almost like a ransom situation where they were releasing new ones every hour or so."
Lawrence was one of 30 celebrities whose private photos were exposed after the breach of Apple's iCloud. The photos of Lawrence were originally sent to her former boyfriend Nic Hoult. In January, 29-year-old Edward Majerczyk, who was found to be responsible for the hack, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay one victim $7,500 in damages.
The Hunger Games actress said that she was still processing the event. Lawrence explained that the incident made her question her ability to be a good role model despite the fact that she's advocated for a number of women's issues over the course of her career.
"I think, like, a year and a half ago, somebody said something to me about how I was 'a good role model for girls,' and I had to go into the bathroom and sob because I felt like an imposter," Lawrence said. "I felt like, 'I can't believe somebody still feels that way after what happened.' It's so many different things to process when you've been violated like that."
Since the incident, Lawrence said she has been in contact with some of the victims, a number of whom had considered taking legal action against Apple. But the 27-year-old didn't feel like a lawsuit would give her the type of resolution she needed to recover from the invasion of privacy.
"None of that was gonna really bring me peace, none of that was gonna bring my nude body back to me and Nic, the person that they were intended for. It wasn't gonna bring any of that back," she said. "I was just interested in healing."
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One of the four people accused of leaking nude celebrity photos in a 2014 hacking scandal has been sentenced to eight months in prison, The Guardian reported .
26-year-old George Garofano was accused of hacking the Apple iCloud accounts of over 200 people, including celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, and Kirsten Dunst, in a scandal that became known as "The Fappening" or "Celebgate" to the media.
He will face a further 36 months of supervised release after leaving jail.
Lawrence railed against the criminals at the time, calling for stricter laws.
"I think people saw [the hacking] for what it was, which was a sex crime, but that feeling, I haven't been able to get rid of it," she told Vogue last year .
"Having your privacy violated constantly isn't a problem if you're perfect. But if you're human, it's terrifying."
All the hackers involved in the scandal have now been sentenced to jail time.
Garofano pleaded guilty in April, admitting to using a phishing scam to trick users into giving him their iCloud usernames and passwords.
The hacker reportedly asked for leniency, requesting no more than five months in prison and another five months of home confinement.
According to The Guardian, the prosecution wrote in a sentencing memo to the court that "Mr Garofano's offense was a serious one. He illegally hacked into his victims' online accounts, invaded their privacy, and stole their personal information, including private and intimate photos. He did not engage in this conduct on just one occasion. He engaged in this conduct 240 times over the course of 18 months.
They went on: "Not only did Mr Garofano keep for himself the photographs he stole, he disseminated them to other individuals. He may have also sold them to others to earn 'extra income.'
"In committing this offense, Mr Garofano acted in complete and utter disregard for the impact on his victims' lives."
Meanwhile, the defence argued that Garofano had "already suffered" serious consequences and has since come to realise the ramifications of his actions.
"He now stands before the court having matured, accepting responsibility for his actions and having not been in trouble with the law since," defense attorney Richard Lynch wrote. "There is nothing to suggest that he would ever engage in this or any other criminal conduct in the future."

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When Kim Kardashian tried to break the internet in November, it was still still recovering from being broken a few months prior. Beginning on 31 Aug 2014 and lasting a few weeks, the internet was hit with an event that became known as the Fappening, a portmanteau of happening and fap, internet slang for masturbate.
Ignition was triggered when these two posts of naked photos of Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton were submitted to their respective subreddits. Within minutes they were both on the frontpage of r/all , with everyone wanting to know where the pictures came from. It soon became known that someone had hacked the iCloud where a large number of celebrities had stored private nude photos of themselves. Unperturbed by this breach of privacy, people demanded more. And more they received.
Within the next few hours of the initial 2 posts, several other nude celebrity photos, including Kirsten Dunst, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kaley Cuoco, Yvonne Strahovski, much more Jennifer Lawrence and many others were posted to reddit. Eventually, someone decided to name this event, and so it was dubbed The Fappening . The deleted comment in that link said there should be a subreddit for it, and the follow up by /u/johnsmcjohn was to let people know that he'd created it.
The subreddit exploded instantly. In all of reddit's history, no subreddit has ever come close to being as initially popular as r/thefappening . With the first 24 hours, it amassed 100,000 subscribers. As it happened over the weekend, it bough an influx of people who weren't at work to the site. An influx that led to 141 million page views in one day. That is roughly what r/AskReddit gets in a month .
Over the next week, more naked photos (mostly of Jennifer Lawrence) kept getting posted. The site was continually going down because of the massive amount of traffic from all across the web. Discussion started popping up in threads all over the site about the morality of the event, whether it was stealing or not, and talks on invasion of privacy, pleas for Emma Watson photos, and random accusations of reddit's hypocrisy. Eventually, the admins posted this . Very soon after, r/thefappening is banned. Mirror subreddits pop up in droves instantly, and are all smited faster than they can be made. The next day, /u/alienth steps in . Any chance of r/thefappening being reopened is quashed. The admins quickly face a gargantuan amount of backlash due to accusation of censorship and only blocking unfavourable content when it makes reddit look bad in the media. The admins adopt a very diplomatic stance, taking care not to upset people more, but it only angers the horde more as the answers they want never come.
Over the next week, people still try to hold onto hope that there will be another resurgence, and reddit got their wish. On Sep 20, a second batch of photos was released on 4chan, and then posted to reddit before they were quickly removed from the hosting sites. More photos followed in the days to follow, but as with all things, reddit slowly drifted its attention toward other things and The Fappening faded into the background, a memory of mixed feelings for the masses.
This barely even touched the surface, there were so many nuances and things going on. Speculation about everything, trying to validate or confirm identities, if someone was underage or not, trying to figure out what else would/could be leaked, which charities to donate too, bitching about those charities rejecting those donations, posting the celebrity reactions, sometimes feeling remorse, reposting and rehosting the images.
It was quite the phenomenon. For such a short lived...thing...there was so much going on.
It's kinda hard for me to document every discussion from every thread about it. I could talk about the discussions of whether that chick taking a load to the face was J-Law or not, all the different ones of people like Bar Rafaeli, Victoria Justice and Blake Lively and the million threads pointing out things like moles, beauty spots and paint chips on the walls in the background trying to prove the identity of them, or the ones where the chick was sitting on a vibrator and people trying to solve that one, or how people were disappointed that the first one of Kaley Cuoco was her sitting on the dunny, and how Kate Upton's body is actually kinda dumpy, and the various discussions of "are they sluts for doing this/stop slut-shaming they can do what they want" or...
Do you see my point? Describing every single minutiae of the entire thing would be pointless, and it would also take several years to track down all the links
You also forgot to talk about the mass genocide of most souls in r/nofap
countless potential humans died on sheets, in toilets and everywhere else that day
Dont forget about reddit trying to donate money to JLaw's charity
I thought it was just a random charity that they picked and said it was on her behalf. It was a men-centric one too at that was it not?
I love how Reddit will try to justify any terrible thing they do by trying to set up a charity drive.
"But look! We're donating for a good cause! We can't be doing anything bad!"
"Remember remember, the day 'fore September."
~ Some random Redditor, the name of which I do not remember
The Lord may have taken robin on the 11th, but he gave us the greatest day in Internet history on the 31st
I'm pretty sure it was /u/exileonmeanstreet who named it The Fappening, just fyi.
Follow the link where I talk about it being named.
This is even more confusing to me about the abbreviation JLaw being thrown around.
Don't forget Yishan's "Everyman is responsible for his own soul" post talking about reddit being the "government of a new type of community"
Had so much backlash they had to call in alienth to clean up the mess.

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