Mary Ellen Matthews/NBC(NEW YORK) — Ghostbusters and Saturday Night Live star Leslie Jones has a new headache online: somebody hacked her personal website and reportedly posted nude photos of her.
The Hollywood Reporter notes the cyber attacker — or attackers — grabbed personal pictures and other information from Jones’ iCloud account and posted them on her website, JustLeslie.com, after control of it was illegally seized.
Her site was taken down around noon Eastern time.
The comic and actress recently quit Twitter, albeit briefly, amid cyberbulling at the hands of online trolls that targeted her over her participation in the all-female Ghostbusters remake.
Jones soon reactivated her account and, in happier online news, scored a chance to cover the Olympics for NBC thanks to her lively live tweets of the Rio Games.
In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, outspoken gay conservative columnist Milo Yiannopoulos — who was banned for life from Twitter in the wake of Jones’ online harassment — said he took no pleasure from the news.
“I’m distressed to hear that Leslie Jones has been hacked and naked pictures of her have been posted online,” he noted in a statement to the trade. “I know we had our differences after my review of Ghostbusters but I wish her all the best at what must be a deeply upsetting time.”
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