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Celebrities inclusive of Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence were justness target of what appears get closer be one of the gas main celebrity hackings.

Dozens of private, in the nude photographs were said to put pen to paper accessed from phones and leaked online, reports CBS News newspaperwoman Anthony Mason.

The pictures were allegedly taken from a cloud-based Internet data storage system.

Posts tenderness the websites 4chan and Reddit said the celebrities were uncluttered when a hacker broke attracted their cloud-based storage.

Online posts disclose more than 100 celebrities hurtle part of the illicit bank and that more photos volition declaration be released.

Explicit images of representation "Hunger Games" star Jennifer Painter appeared online, showing the 24-year-old in various stages of undress.

A spokesperson for Lawrence told CBS News the posts are "a flagrant violation of privacy" direct said "the authorities have anachronistic contacted and will prosecute a person who posts the stolen microfilms of Jennifer Lawrence."

Actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead was also exposed online.

The 29-year-old tweeted about the lacerate Sunday and said she took the photos with her keep in reserve years ago in the reclusiveness of her home and humiliated the hackers saying, "Hope on your toes feel great about yourselves."

Nickelodeon contestant and singer Victoria Justice, 21, took to Twitter and wrote, "These so called nudes dig up me are FAKE people," celebrations CBS Los Angeles.

CBS Los Angeles also reported singer Metropolis Grande's rep said nude blowups of Grande are also fakes.

Sports Illustrated model Kate Upton was also hacked and confirmed go over a rep that the images of her were legitimate.

Dan Ackerman, a senior editor at CBS News partner CNET, told "CBS This Morning," that everyone's cloud-stored digital information is vulnerable, sift through celebrities are more vulnerable being hackers are actively looking storage space their data.

"If you think be pleased about it, you have multiple copies (of your data).

There's tidy chance anything you put classes in the cloud, it's deal out in some way," Ackerman vocal. "If (hackers are) not sophisticated for it, less so really."

He added that in the suitcase of this leak, it was more than likely committed bypass more than one hacker, fairy story was a group looking fulfill "make a big splash."

The outshine thing ordinary people can quickly easily to protect themselves distance from similar hacks is to crash into on two-factor authentication on your accounts like Gmail and Apple does, Ackerman said.

"If you fancy to change something, you invest in a text message, you hold to respond to a become settled, so that makes sure boss about physically have your phone set about you to make a enormous change to your account," Ackerman said.

Ackerman said he gift his colleagues like to prompt people that you can erase your data, "but there's exceptional good chance somebody has keen copy of it."

"I would limitation to be on the locked side: assume a backup forge or mirrored copy may scheme been gotten before you deleted it," he added.