The leak was dubbed the fappening or celebgate by the public A 4chan hacker infiltrated the app 'tea,' where women anonymously post photos of men and gossip about them, leaking 72,000 images, including 13,000 selfies for authentication, causing a huge uproar. From big box office franchise leads to former teen tv stars, these actors and actresses were victims of nude photo leaks through the years. Hackers have breached the tea app, which went viral as a place for women to talk about men, and tens of thousands of women's photos have now been leaked online. The fappening is the nickname now given to the 2014 celebrity photos leak scandal that has lots of female celebrities undressed in photos posted on 4chan message boards and on reddit. The fappening on august 31, 2014, a collection of almost 500 private pictures of many celebrities, mostly women, and with many having their nudes, were posted on the imageboard 4chan, and later shared by other users on websites and social networks such as imgur and reddit.
4chan has burst into the public consciousness as the web forum responsible for the biggest celebrity nude pictures leak in history — so why do we know so little about it? Here's what you need to know. After the initial leak of hundreds of nude celebrity photos online through 4chan, thefappening emerged as a distribution center for the stolen photos.
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