Phone hacking: 5 celebrities who hit been stung - World

Scarlett Johansson has reportedly enlisted the FBI to watch who hacked into her sound and leaked someone photos of the tone person onto the internet.

The pictures in discourse surfaced online on Tuesday, and materialize to hit been condemned by Johansson herself. On Thursday, Johansson's attorney, Marty Singer, dispatched emails to a sort of honor account sites, including TMZ, urging them to verify downbound these "stolen papers fortified clannish photographs."

Johannson isn't the prototypal honor to vow the FBI in a phone-hacking case. The U.S. authority is work a hacking anulus answerable for as whatever as 50 breaches of honor telecommunicate accounts, including those of Jessica Alba, Miley prince and Christina Aguilera.

Here's a countenance at whatever of the most striking honor phone-hacking incidents.

Paris Hilton

In Feb 2005, a Colony teenaged gained admittance to Hilton's Sidekick radiotelephone and posted the table — which included sound drawing and telecommunicate addresses for man stars aforementioned Ashlee doc and Eminem — on the web. The coder breached the socialite's sound by gaining admittance to the ring records grouping of T-Mobile International and then exploiting a section damage in the company's website.

Hugh Grant

Around Christmastime 2010, the nation actor's automobile poor downbound on a far agency nearby Kent. Who should intend by but Apostle McMullan, a past communicator with the News of the World. After snapping whatever photos of Grant for posterity, McMullan offered him a ride, during which McMullan addicted that News of the World had been hacking Grant's sound for years.

McMullan, who today operates a taphouse in Dover, solicited Grant to become backwards for a drink. Several months later, Grant did so — but he was act a wire. McMullan crosspiece at greater size about the intrusive journalistic practices at News of the World, and Grant publicised highlights from the furtive discourse in the New Statesman newspaper.

Blake Lively

In June, hackers free a reason of suggestive photos, including quaternary nudes, of someone resembling the Gossip Girl star. The actor's representatives denied that the images were of Lively, but nonetheless threatened jural state against some place that publicised them. The hackers responded with a taunt: "Oh, yes, Blake's rep. These are totally fake. We really, rattling conceive you. Want moar [sic]?" The housing relic unresolved.

Mila Kunis

In the aforementioned week that condemned photos of Scarlett Johansson went viral, Mila Kunis old her possess grapple attack. On Wednesday, TMZ reportable that quaternary photos condemned from Kunis's sound — including digit of Friends with Benefits co-star Justin Timberlake — had been posted to the web.

Accessibility Links