Pshhh, what nudes? Taylor Swift's social media accounts were hijacked on Tuesday, Jan. 27, by so-called elite hackers who threatened to release nude photos of the pop superstar in exchange for bitcoins. Swift, however, retorted that there were no naked pics and told the offenders to "have fun" finding any. 
 
 The story began early Tuesday when several updates were tweeted from Swift's accounts, instructing her 50 million-plus fans to follow two specific members of the Lizard Squad, @lizzard and @veriuser. 
 
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 The Lizard Squad is a group of hackers who claimed they were behind North Korea's Internet shutdown amidst the Sony leak scandal. Over the holidays, the same group apparently took down the entire PlayStation and Xbox Live gaming networks. They were also reportedly responsible for Monday evening's temporary Facebook and Instagram issues. 
 
 Someone from Swift's team promptly deleted the tweets, but the hackers claimed that they had access to nude photos of the 1989 hitmaker (via The Verge). The accounts @lizzard and @veruser were suspended by Twitter as of Tuesday afternoon. 
 
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 Swift, 25, meanwhile, took to her Tumblr to address the hacking. "My twitter got hacked but don't worry," she wrote to fans. "Twitter is deleting the hacker tweets and locking my account until they can figure out how this happened and get me new passwords. Never a dull moment." 
 
 After her account was unlocked, Swift responded to the intrusion with several lighthearted tweet. 
 
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 Cause the hackers gonna hack, hack, hack, hack, hack… — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) January 27, 2015 
 
 I'd like to acknowledge the MVP of the day, @yelyahwilliams, for being the first to text me about the hack this morning. #FriendshipGoals — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) January 27, 2015 
 
 PS any hackers saying they have 'nudes'? Psssh you'd love that wouldn't you! Have fun photoshopping cause you got NOTHING. — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) January 27, 2015 
 
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 The "Blank Space" singer also used her Tumblr on Tuesday to write a sweet message to a bullied fan named Caillou. 
 
 "I was really shocked to hear you say that you'd been bullied because of your name because the first thing I thought when I saw it was 'woah, Caillou is such a cool name,'" she wrote. "Honestly. I thought it was so cool because it's different, and herein lies our issue: you will always be criticized and teased and bullied for things that make you different, but usually those things will be what set you apart." 
 
 She continued: "No one gets to have a place in your mind if they weren't invited there by you. So please do me this one favor: Don't let their ugly words into your beautiful mind." Read what she wrote to her bullies on Tumblr. 
 
 Swift is currently in Hawaii on a trip with the Haim sisters. 
 
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 Want stories like these delivered straight to your phone? Download the Us Weekly iPhone app now! ||||| Taylor Swift does not take personal attacks lightly (after all, she wrote a song and filmed a video in response to a bad review), which is why her team sent a cease-and-desist letter to a gossip website because of a supposed topless photo of the 21-year-old country crossover superstar. 
 
 Over the weekend, Celebrity Jihad posted a photo of a curly-haired blonde girl lying topless across a bed, claiming that it was a leaked photo of Swift. Shortly thereafter, Celebrity Jihad received a letter from Swift’s legal team asking that the photo be taken down, insisting that it was not in fact Swift. 
 
 The picture remains up at Celebrity Jihad, despite the site’s acknowledgement of Swift’s protest. A formal lawsuit could be the next step. 
 
 Here’s the thing: The picture obviously isn’t Taylor Swift, so this whole thing should theoretically go away pretty quickly. Still, with a hacker already arrested for unearthing nude photos of the likes of Scarlett Johansson and Christina Aguilera, the message to young female stars remains steadfast: Nobody can steal your nude photos if said pictures don’t exist. Though if they can’t, apparently, they’re happy to fake it. 
 
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 Review: Taylor Swift’s Speak Now Tour ||||| Although she's one celeb whose name we thought would never share the same sentence as "nude photo scandal," it looks like Taylor Swift is taking her turn in the denial rodeo. After celebrity skin website, Celeb Jihad posted photos of an alleged topless Swift with the headline, "Taylor Swift Topless Private Pic Leaked?" the poised and pretty country crooner is in full attack mode, assuring her fans that she is not the girl in the photo, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 
 
 The photo in question shows a young blonde, who bares a striking resemblance to Swift, sprawled across a bed wearing only a pair of blue underwear. 
 
 But along with some curious clickers, the website may also be receiving a lawsuit from Swift's lawyers. If the photo is not removed from the website, Swift and her team are prepared to sue for trademark infringement, reports TMZ. A letter from Swift's representatives to Celeb Jihad stated that their story was based on "false pornographic images and false 'news.'" 
 
 This story of celebrity exploitation is all too familiar. Earlier this year, nude self-portraits of a woman who appeared to be Scarlett Johansson surfaced, but the actress vehemently denied that she was the subject of the photos. 
 
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 PHOTO GALLERY BEFORE YOU GO Celebrities With Leaked/Hacked Photos PHOTO GALLERY Celebrities With Leaked/Hacked Photos ||||| IF you logged into Twitter late last night, some of the more pervy users seemed quite proud of the story they were spreading. 
 
 Every other Tweet seemed to contain leery naked photos of Hollywood actresses, female American singers, sports stars and more, and indeed, some of those photos are still there for all to see. They appeared after a user of popular internet troll community 4Chan appeared to hack the iCloud accounts of over 100 US celebrities, found personal naked photos in those drives and dumped them all over cyberspace, with a Reddit accompanying the leaks full of people congratulating him. 
 
 Publicists of the Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence, who has had dozens of photos leaked, have said anyone sharing these photos will be prosecuted but there is never going to be a perfect expunging of these photos from cyberspace. Naked photographs leaked years ago are still online for people to look with the simplest possible Google search – even ones that people went to jail for leaking – and these photos are likely to resurface everytime these people do anything for the rest of time. Which given some of these people are in there early 20s is a cheery thought. 
 
 But the really depressing part is that by even commenting on them, you’re advertising their existence. Throughout the 24 hours or so since the leaks went public, there have been a multitude of opinion articles condemning the leaks, and yet all this seems to be doing is alerting the previously unaware to the existence of these photographs, and almost telling them to go and seek them out. This is not quite the same as directly linking to pages containing the offending materials, although some woefully misguided outlets have done this, but it is hardly helping the problem in any way that those whose photos leaked would have wanted. 
 
 Articles on the story have been the most read or one of the most read stories on virtually all mainstream media outlets during the day. This is an unusual discord as if a mainstream outlet went out of their way to find and publish such photos – even a tawdry gossip twaddle peddler like TMZ – there would be unilateral calls for their demise, just like there was for the News of the World in 2011 before it was closed down. 
 
 Rather than pariahs by all, those who hacked and leaked the images have been treated like heroes in certain communities for their acts in leaking the photos. Its a depressing thought really, given that it would have taken some endeavour to acquire the photos and the reaction is basically seeming to applaud them for such bold lack of respect of privacy as well as encouraging a disgustingly large amount of sexist commentary. 
 
 In arguments with those unimpressed with the leaking, some of the commenters seem personally affronted by the notion the celebrities have private lives and that this right to privacy is more important than their personal satisfaction from the photos from. This is a completely insane line that falls apart on even the most basic logic, be it legal, moral or even for the illicit pleasure on the internet, given there are plenty of other corners filled with people who consent to have their naked likenesses on the internet, rather than this medium. 
 
 It is extremely childish how they seem to think that these famous women should have pictures that they took in confidence for their romantic partners and backed up by their cloud computer systems released into the public sphere just because they’re famous and they’re women. The childish nature rings further in the responses, which read almost as if they were amazed by the idea that famous women have the bits you would see in a nudey magazine. 
 
 4Chan has a reputation as a disgusting place but even if you never used it, one did think, “Surely there was a limit”. Evidently that line of thought was a mistake, and it is certainly bizarre how there were people on this site and others opposed to the NSA spying techniques uncovered by the revelations of Edward Snowden last year that were among those getting off on the thought they’d violated the privacy of the rich and the famous. 
 
 There have always been nude picture leaks – hell, a leak of them probably helped catapult Marilyn Monroe to global fame – but not like this, and it just makes the whole thing feel disgusting to even think about. It was also quite disgusting how ubiquitous it was, with nude photos of Lawrence plastered all over Twitter like bad memes or sociopathic ranting. 
 
 But the really troubling fact is that unless quick action is taken by the US authorities, we really are just starting. The user who posted the initially found photos claimed to have photos of over 100 celebrities, and some technology security experts fear they have images of a further 300. So no matter how disgusting, amoral or hideous this whole mess is, its clearly a long way from being over… ||||| Homophobic abuse is tweeted to singer’s 89 million followers and love messages sent to her arch rival Taylor Swift 
 
 Twitter’s top user and pop superstar Katy Perry was hacked on Monday, with her account sending abusive tweets to her 89 million followers and reportedly leaking an unreleased song. 
 
 The tweets removed from Perry’s account page, the most followed on Twitter, beating Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift, sent homophobic messages to users and a “miss u baby�? message to the singer’s arch rival Taylor Swift among others. 
 
 The hacked account signed off with a tweet telling users to “haha follow @sw4ylol #hackersgonnahack�?, who appears to have claimed responsibility for the hack. 
 
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 @sw4ylol, the alleged hacker’s account, which is still operational but appears to be caught in a semi-suspended state pushing out tweet notifications for tweets that don’t appear, also reportedly shared an unreleased track from Perry on SoundCloud and a screenshot of the singer’s email account. 
 
 The link to the SoundCloud file shared by a user named “slut�? was removed from Twitter, along with several other tweets from the account. The alleged hacker’s account still shows a takedown notification from SoundCloud for Witness 1.3, after the song was removed from the service. 
 
 Perry’s account has been cleaned of the hacked messages, but has yet to acknowledge the intrusion.
– Apparently there is at least one celebrity who doesn't take nude pictures: Taylor Swift. Her social media accounts were hacked yesterday by the Lizard Squad, a group that's claimed responsibility for a number of other recent cyberattacks. The group threatened to release nude photos of Swift, but she was having none of the nonsense, Us reports: "any hackers saying they have 'nudes'? Psssh you'd love that wouldn't you! Have fun photoshopping cause you got NOTHING," she tweeted, along with a play off her latest hit: "Cause the hackers gonna hack, hack, hack, hack, hack..." On Tumblr, she assured fans, "My Twitter got hacked but don’t worry, Twitter is deleting the hacker tweets and locking my account until they can figure out how this happened and get me new passwords." She later continued making it difficult for you to hate her by responding, to a fan who had requested that someone tell her to get off Tumblr and do her homework, "Get off Tumblr and do your homework, Destiny." (Swift recently revealed her bellybutton for the first time.)