The Fappening: all that you really want to be aware of the spilled superstar nudes




Okay, it might feel like a long time ago—seriously, it was back in 2014, that's nine years!—but the Fappening is still a big search term on Google. If you're like us and weren't really using the internet much over a decade ago, and you have no idea what the Fappening is, don't worry. We're here to explain it to you, once and for all.


The Fappening, also known as TheFappening or Celebgate, is about when a bunch of private pictures of more than 100 famous people got hacked and leaked. This happened back in 2014 and included big names like Jennifer Lawrence and Rihanna.


The leaked photos were shared on websites like 4chan, which is now closed, and Reddit. When these pictures were posted on these websites, which have millions of users, it became really tough to remove them from the internet. It was legally complicated and difficult.


The person behind the leaked photos hacked into celebrities' online storage accounts (like iCloud) by tricking them with fake emails. They asked the victims to share their usernames and passwords, making the emails look like they were from Google or Apple.


Once they got in, the hacker downloaded many private photos from these accounts and quickly put them online. This became a big deal and was one of the worst celebrity photo leaks ever.


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What does "fappening" mean?

"Fappening" is a mix of two words: "happening" as in what's going on, and "fapping," which means masturbating.


Online, "fappening" refers to when someone illegally gets naked pictures of people, often famous ones, and shares them on big websites like 4chan, Reddit, and Saidit. Sometimes they even ask for money, usually in cryptocurrency, to share these pictures.


Who was behind the 2014 Fappening?


The person responsible for the 2014 Fappening was Ryan Collins. He was 36 when he hacked into more than 600 people's iCloud accounts during the Work Day hack in 2014. Collins got sentenced to a year and a half in jail after a trial in 2016.


Inside The Fappening Blog Forum: Where Celeb Photo Leaks and Data Breaches are Explored



Imagine a place called The Fappening blog Forum where people used to share and collect private pictures of famous celebrities that were leaked. Sadly, the people who used this forum had their personal information leaked in a security breach. We don't know all the details about the breach, but we do know that a person named Troy Hunt added more than 179,000 records from The Fappening Forum to a service called "Have I Been Pwned?" This service helps people find out if their personal information has been exposed. Troy Hunt noticed something important. In the forum's records, there were many email addresses ending in ".gov," which usually belong to government workers. Out of the 179,000 leaked emails, a big chunk, about 30%, had already been leaked in other incidents before.

The Fappening Forum used to be really popular on the internet about two or three years ago. That was when the celebrity photo leaks happened. Even after things calmed down, the forum stayed popular because it kept gathering and sharing more private celebrity photos from different places.


Why the Fappening is harmful to our society?




Sadly, the Fappening blog forum isn't a one-time thing. It's a bigger problem in our society, especially affecting women more than men. The rules that protect our privacy, especially online, aren't strong enough to stop these kinds of crimes. And websites often aren't held responsible for the bad stuff that gets posted on their platforms.


Jennifer Lawrence spoke about her experience in an interview with Vanity Fair, saying, "It's not a scandal. 

It's a violation of privacy. "Let's wish for an end to incidents of celebrities' private photos being leaked."