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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attended Beyoncé's Renaissance tour on Friday.</li><li>Photos and videos of the couple dancing with Meghan's mom were shared on social media.</li></ul><p>The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended Beyoncé's Renaissance tour four years after first meeting the star, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/02/harry-meghan-beyonce-doria-renaissance-concert/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Telegraph</a> reported on Saturday.</p><p>Prince Harry and Meghan were seen in a private box at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on Friday with Meghan's mom, <a href="https://www.insider.com/meghan-markle-mom-doria-ragland-pictured-kim-kardashian-kris-jenner-2023-8">Doria Ragland</a>, and two friends, The Telegraph's Victoria Ward and George Styllis reported. One of the friends appeared to be Meghan's former "Suits" costar Abigail Spencer, according to <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/royal-family/harry-meghan-beyonce-los-angeles-b2403743.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Independent</a>. </p><p>The group wore coordinating silver outfits, seemingly adhering to <a href="https://www.insider.com/why-are-beyonce-fans-wearing-silver-chrome-outfits-renaissance-tour-2023-9">Beyonce's request</a> that fans attending the show wear the color, according to The Telegraph.</p><div type="image" title="beyonce" height="2000" width="3000" msid="103363267" hostid="261" sizebytes="478204"></div><p>In a photo published by The Telegraph, Meghan can be seen wearing a silver, sequinned pencil skirt and a white shirt while Harry wears a silver-gray shirt and blazer.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Le__Katerina/status/1698114420231053354" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Videos</a> of the group dancing to Beyoncé's performance of "Love on Top" were shared by fans on social media. In one <a href="https://twitter.com/bluesbabysitter/status/1697833123000820209" target="_blank" rel="noopener">image shared to X</a>, Ragland can be seen wearing a silver blouse, while a woman who appears to be Spencer opted for a silver disco ball dress. </p><p>"This tour has been such a joy and as we approach the last month, my birthday wish is to celebrate with you wearing your most fabulous silver fashions to the shows 8.23-9.22!" Beyoncé wrote on her Instagram stories ahead of the show, according to The Telegraph.</p><p>The group were out to celebrate Ragland's 67th birthday, according to The Telegraph.</p><h2>Beyoncé is a longtime supporter of the royal couple</h2><p>Meghan has been a fan of Beyoncé's music for several years. The duchess included the star's music at her royal wedding to Prince Harry in May 2018. Idris Elba, who DJ'd the wedding reception, told <a href="https://www.etonline.com/idris-elba-says-beyonce-was-on-meghan-markles-wedding-playlist-exclusive-128536" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Entertainment Tonight</a> in 2019 that Beyoncé was included on the playlist.</p><p>It turned out that the feeling was mutual. In February 2019, Beyoncé and Jay-Z recorded their <a href="https://twitter.com/BRITs/status/1098328409086849025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BRIT Award acceptance speech</a> for best international group in front of a portrait of Meghan dressed as the Queen.</p><p>The two couples finally got to meet in person at the London premiere of "The Lion King" in July of that year, when Harry and Meghan were working members of the royal family. The premiere took place two months after they welcomed their first son, Archie.</p><div type="image" title="Beyoncé and Jay-Z meet and talk with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at the premiere of &quot;The Lion King.&quot;" height="2158" width="3237" msid="103363273" hostid="261" sizebytes="703752"></div><p>"The baby, so beautiful," Beyoncé could be heard telling the couple, the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7246085/Meghan-stuns-black-gown-joins-Prince-Harry-walk-red-carpet-Lion-King-premiere.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Mail</a>'s Rebecca English and Harriet Johnston reported at the time.</p><p>"The best advice I can give you, always find some time for yourself," Jay-Z said, according to the publication.</p><p>Beyoncé and Meghan appeared to have <a href="https://www.insider.com/meghan-markle-beyonce-friendship-timeline-2021-8">remained friends</a> in the four years since their first meeting, having various online interactions. In the Netflix docuseries, "Harry &amp; Meghan," which aired in December 2022, <a href="https://www.insider.com/beyonce-texted-meghan-markle-in-support-after-oprah-winfrey-interview-2022-12">Meghan said the singer texted her</a> after she and Harry were interviewed by Oprah Winfrey in 2021.</p><p>"She said she wants me to feel safe and protected," Meghan said, appearing to read out the text to Harry in the clip. "She admires and respects my bravery and vulnerability."</p><p>Meghan added that Beyoncé told her she was "selected to break generational curses that need to be healed."</p><p>Representatives for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex did not respond to a request for comment. </p>

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wore matching silver outfits to Beyoncé's Renaissance tour

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Prince Harry discussed Meghan Markle's miscarriage in the Netflix docuseries "Harry &amp; Meghan."</li><li>While the cause of miscarriage is unclear, he blamed the stress of a lawsuit against The Mail on Sunday.</li></ul><p>Prince Harry said he believes Meghan Markle's miscarriage occurred due to stress around the couple's lawsuit against a British tabloid.</p><p>In the sixth and final episode of the Netflix docuseries <a href="https://www.netflix.com/watch/81478160?trackId=14170287" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Harry &amp; Meghan,"</a> which was released on Thursday, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex discussed the miscarriage that Meghan suffered in the summer of 2020 while pursuing a lawsuit against Associated Newspapers Limited, which owns the British newspaper The Mail on Sunday.</p><p>Harry shared his belief that the stress of the <a href="https://www.insider.com/meghan-markle-mail-on-sunday-privacy-ruling-payout-2022-1">privacy case</a> — which revolved around the publication of a handwritten letter to her estranged father, Thomas Markle — contributed to Meghan losing her second pregnancy.</p><p>"I believe my wife suffered a miscarriage because of what The Mail did," he said while reflecting on that period.</p><p>"I watched the whole thing. Now, do we absolutely know that the miscarriage was created, caused by that? Course we don't," he continued.</p><p>"But bearing in mind the stress that it caused, the lack of sleep and the timing of the pregnancy, how many weeks in she was, I can say from what I saw, that miscarriage was created by what they were trying to do to her," he added.</p><p><a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/can-stress-cause-miscarriage#stress-and-miscarriage">According to Healthline</a>, there is no evidence that stress is a direct cause of miscarriage, however some studies have suggested it's possible it could be a factor. </p><p>Jenny Afia, the duchess' former lawyer, also appeared in the documentary and commented that one particular development in the case in early summer placed a lot of stress on Meghan.</p><div type="image" title="Meghan Markle recounted the stress she was under during the time." height="1232" width="2190" msid="96257142" hostid="261"></div><p>She said: "I knew the stress the latest development was having on Meghan and that was that The Mail were going to argue that Meghan's friends had already spoken about the letter to <a href="https://people.com/royals/meghan-markles-best-friends-break-their-silence-we-want-to-speak-the-truth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People</a> magazine and that Meghan had authorized that interview, which she hadn't."</p><p>Meghan herself added: "I just felt it was important to protect them in the way they were trying to protect me. And that was right in the same week that we moved into our home in Santa Barbara."</p><p>"I was pregnant, I really wasn't sleeping and the first morning that we woke up in our new home is when I miscarried," she stated.</p><p>Meghan's close friend and former "Suits" costar Abigail Spencer recalled witnessing the moment that Meghan realized that something was wrong.</p><p>She said that Meghan gestured at her stomach and told her she was "having a lot of pain," before she "just fell to the ground."</p><p>Later in the episode, Harry said he believes that The Mail on Sunday reproduced parts of the "personal and private" letter from Meghan to her father across five articles in 2018 because "they knew the family would encourage us not to sue."</p><div type="image" title="Jenny Afia in &quot;Harry &amp; Meghan.&quot;" height="1346" width="2392" msid="96257144" hostid="261"></div><p>Meghan eventually won the privacy claim in 2021 and was awarded a nominal £1 ($1.23) in damages from The Mail On Sunday's publisher. </p><p>DMG Media, the intermediate holding company for Associated Newspapers, did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.</p><p>Meghan said in the docuseries that she wrote the letter after seeking advice from the late Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III and that she attempted to send it discreetly.</p><p>In November 2021, Meghan spoke about the miscarriage for the first time in an op-ed article in The New York Times. Writing in the piece, titled "<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/opinion/meghan-markle-miscarriage.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Losses We Share</a>," the duchess said she felt a "sharp cramp" one morning as she was changing her son's diaper.</p><p>It is unknown how far along Markle was in her pregnancy when she had the miscarriage. The duke and duchess had not announced that they were expecting a second child at the time and have since welcomed a daughter, Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, who was born on June 4, 2021.</p>

Prince Harry blames a British tabloid for Meghan Markle's miscarriage, although he can't 'absolutely know' what caused it

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/57f294f211c8e7d6198b4d15-1112/timeless nbc.jpg" alt="timeless nbc.JPG" data-mce-source="Joe Lederer/NBC" data-mce-caption="From left, Abigail Spencer as Lucy Preston, Paterson Joseph as Connor Mason, and Matt Lanter as Wyatt Logan." /><p class="source"><span>Joe Lederer/NBC</span></p><p class="caption">From left, Abigail Spencer as Lucy Preston, Paterson Joseph as Connor Mason, and Matt Lanter as Wyatt Logan.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Time travel is big on TV this year. There are at least four series set to hit our screens in the coming months that include the classic sci-fi trope.</p><p>But the first show to get in on the action this season is NBC's "Timeless," which premieres Monday at 10 p.m. EST.</p><p>From showrunners Eric Kripke ("Supernatural," "Revolution") and Shawn Ryan ("The Shield" and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/netflixs-the-get-down-ex-showrunner-shawn-ryan-2016-8" target="_blank">briefly "The Get Down"</a>), "Timeless" follows a trio of heroes - Wyatt (Matt Lanter), a soldier; Lucy  (Abigail Spencer), an anthropologist; and Rufus (Malcolm Barrett), a scientist and pilot - tasked with tracking down and stopping time-traveling villains who are intent on changing history.</p><p>Business Insider talked to Kripke and Ryan about time-travel shows, the challenges of their black character, and how another failed show helped to strengthen "Timeless."</p><p><strong>Jethro Nededog: There are several time-travel shows this season. What brought you guys to that?</strong></p><p><strong>Eric Kripke: </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">Long before we knew of other pitches, we really explored the idea and were excited by the idea of just making a time-travel show that had a story engine that every week you went to a different historical period. It really lends itself to a network show, because every single week there's a fascinating, exciting, visceral story somewhere in history and I think we can sort of understand where you can get 22 really great episodes out of that. It really came from not watching any trends or seeing what else is out there, but what would be a really exciting show with a lot of variety. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One thing I'd like to add is, we get this  question a lot about all the time-travel shows that are out there and it reminds me of in 2005, that was the same year there was "Invasion" and "Surface" and "Nightstalker," all of these very similar shows and I used to get this exact question, which is, "But there's so many monster shows out there?" And my answer now is really my answer then, which is, "Yeah, but I'm gonna focus on our show and I'm going to make our show the most kicka--, amazing version of it possible and have it just be the best one and then the rest is out of my control."</span></p><p><strong>Shawn Ryan: </strong>N<span style="font-weight: 400;">obody gets too worked up if there are three medical shows on TV or three cop shows on TV. It all comes down to the individual execution. That's what we can control and we premiere October 3 on NBC after "The Voice" and people are either going to embrace us or reject us before it ever becomes a question about these other shows.</span></p><p><strong><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/57f29622d8872425008b5052-1067/timeless black character.jpg" alt="timeless black character.JPG" data-mce-source="Sergei Bachlakov/NBC" data-mce-caption="From left, Abigail Spencer as Lucy Preston, and Malcolm Barrett as Rufus Carlin on NBC's &amp;quotTimeless.&quot;" /><p class="source"><span>Sergei Bachlakov/NBC</span></p><p class="caption">From left, Abigail Spencer as Lucy Preston, and Malcolm Barrett as Rufus Carlin on NBC's "Timeless."</p></div><p></p></div></div>Nededog: Did you always plan to include a black main character?</strong></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> It was written that way. You're always looking for something new, even if it's like a time-travel thing. And we were certainly fans of earlier time-travel things, whether it's "Back to the Future," "Quantum Leap." You're always looking for some new thing to approach it and so you talk about the idea of sending an African-American character back in time and what obstacles that creates. And when you're a show creator, you're looking for obstacles because that's drama - that's what gets you excited. Okay, here's the obstacle, how is our character going to overcome this? So that was one of the earliest things. It also seemed disingenuous in this day and age to tell a story that would lack that diversity in some way. So it seemed like a modern take on the idea of time travel.</span></p><p><strong>Nededog: The premiere episode takes place in the late 1930s and Rufus is forced to explain himself to the other characters on the episode. How will each episode deal with this?</strong></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Ryan: </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">I don't know about that. Each historical situation will be different. Episode two, and this is something where all our research came in to help, on the specific day we go back in time, the Civil War has just ended. It's a celebration and there was actually incredibly optimistic talk for African-American people right up until Lincoln was assassinated. So he comes back to a time that he's expecting to be awful and finds it to actually be a little more progressive and inclusive than he anticipated. That's true history right there. So the situations are always going to be different. He doesn't need to give a big speech every episode about it, but there will be different ways we tackle the subject each week.</span></span></p><p><strong>Nededog: Part of the characters' goal is to make sure nothing in the past is altered, because that will alter something in the future. One of the characters learns that the hard way. It's pretty heartbreaking.</strong></p><p><strong>Ryan: </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">I was so frustrated, because I worked for a year for Joss Whedon but he was the one who told me a Joss Whedon quote that I had never heard. Joss always found on "Buffy" that the most successful episodes were the ones where they put their characters in pain rather than peril and that's been a great touchstone for me. You want to really dig into the emotional life of these characters more than it is about putting them in the middle of shootouts. We will have the occasional shootout.</span></p><p><strong>Kripke: </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sure, lots of shootouts</span></p><p><strong>Ryan: </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">But those aren't the emotional center of the episodes.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Kripke:</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The reality is it's about stakes, right? At the end of the day, you know that your three leads are most likely not going to die. So in the back of their heads, every time the audience is watching a shootout or a death-defying situation, they deep down know that it's going to be okay. But what you can do is have emotional stakes and you can screw a character up emotionally, so that they are going to carry that wound forever and that's something real. And your audience can really hope that that's not going to happen or be emotionally horrified that it does. When you're living in the world of emotion, it really allows you to have things happen on the show that frankly are a lot more dangerous to the lives of your characters than just a shootout.</span></span></span></p><p><strong><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/57f29663d887240a068b4f5a-2400/revolution nbc-1.jpg" alt="revolution nbc" data-mce-source="NBC" /><p class="source"><span>NBC</span></p><p class="caption">"Revolution" starred Tracy Spiridakos and Billy Burke.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Nededog: Eric, the last time we talked was between the first and second seasons of "Revolution" [it was canceled after the second season]. Any takeaways from that experience?</strong></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Kripke: </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">Oh yeah, in a very specific way. In certain ways for me, "Timeless" is a reaction to "Revolution." </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">"Revolution" was, by a mile, the hardest show I ever worked on. One of the reasons it was so hard is because it was straight, serialized genre drama over 22 episodes of network television, which was really damn hard to maintain. So when I was toying with the idea of doing a network show again, I said to myself, "If I'm going to do this, it needs to have a humming story engine that I know I can sit in the writers' room and get 22 episodes out of." </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">And so then as Shawn and I were talking, we landed on this idea of you have a different historical period every week, with a different mystery in that historical period and meeting fascinating characters within that time, in a very genre way.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the reasons I think "Supernatural" is in its 12th year is because it has a humming story engine. If there's a ghost story out in America, then "Supernatural" can make a story out of it. So there can literally be and there are hundreds of episodes. At some point during the creation of "Revolution," I forgot that good lesson. You can do that in cable, for 10 episodes, but I think if you're going to do a network show, it was good to re-learn that lesson and come up with a very efficient story engine, which I think "Timeless" has.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">"Revolution" was such a weird, beautiful show. I have great affection for that show. 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<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/543552486da8118a79c2b350-900-675/jennifer-lawrence-kate-upton-and-abigail-spencer.jpg" border="0" alt="Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, and Abigail Spencer"><p class="source"><span>Reuters/Lucas Jackson, AP, David Buchanan/Getty Images</span></p><p class="caption">Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, and Abigail Spencer. All are targets of iCloud hackers and photo dealers</p></img></div><p></p></div></div>Some dealers say the celebrity photo trading industry died on the afternoon of Labor Day 2014. An </span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/originalguy-the-icloud-hacker-who-leaked-naked-celebrity-photos-2014-9">anonymous pornography collector, "OriginalGuy</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">," did the unthinkable and set about uploading his entire collection of stolen photographs to notorious porn forum AnonIB - hundreds of images of 101 different actresses and singers. When users discovered what was happening, they swarmed the site. Eventually he was unable to load the forum to post any more images, so he took to 4chan, the anarchic discussion forum read by thousands.</span></p>
<p>That's when people really started to notice what was going on.</p>
<p>Hours after OriginalGuy shared hundreds of stolen photographs of female celebrities, the media began to realize what had happened. At first, they weren't sure how to report on the incident. Gossip blogger Perez Hilton re-uploaded stolen naked photographs to his site, and was <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/perez-hilton-apologises-for-jennifer-lawrence-nude-photo-leak-9703045.html">forced to issue an apology hours later </a>due to widespread outrage. TMZ, the celebrity news site famed for breaking stories of hacking and sex scandals, <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2014/08/31/jennifer-lawrence-nude-photos-leak/">took hours to publish anything on the leaked images.</a> It looked like this was a world-first: Hackers had infiltrated Apple's iCloud service and made away with a seemingly endless trove of stolen photographs. But for those in the know, this wasn't new. Rather, it signaled the death of a thriving underground industry that had existed online for years.</p>
<p>This is the story of that death, and the way it led within days to a reconstitution of the marketplace in a new home, where it thrives today.</p>
<h3>/stol/, short for "Stolen"</h3>
<p>Pornography forum AnonIB was started in May 2006, formed as an offshoot site of notorious anonymous message board 4chan. The site was controversial from its very inception. AnonIB has struggled to prevent its users from posting child porn on the site, which includes the subforums "Teens (18+)" and "Drunk/Passed Out." One board in proved particularly popular: /stol/, short for "Stolen" and "Obtained Pictures." For years, /stol/ served as a kind of advertising system, almost like a Craigslist for hackers. </p>
<p><strong>Here's the kind of ad users see on AnonIB. This French hacker advertises his services as a "ripper" who can steal naked photographs from iCloud accounts:</strong></p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image"><a title_source="anonIB" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/54058a3fecad044c7344e2f9-960/screen shot 2014-09-02 at 10.13.09.png"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/54058a3fecad044c7344e2f9-1124-312/screen shot 2014-09-02 at 10.13.09.png" border="0" alt="anonIB iCloud hack advert" /></a><p class="source"><span>anonIB</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p>
<p>But after OriginalGuy posted his trove of photos online, AnonIB was immediately taken down. For two weeks, the site claimed to be undergoing "scheduled maintenance." The truth was that the site's anonymous operator was scrubbing the site of any incriminating evidence that linked the porn forum to the iCloud hacks. <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image"><a title_source="AnonIB" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/542bdabe6da811720ae4192f-960/screen-shot-2014-09-04-at-9.46.47-am.png"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/542bdabe6da811720ae4192f-983-102/screen-shot-2014-09-04-at-9.46.47-am.png" border="0" alt="Maintenance message on AnonIB" style="line-height: 1.5em;" /></a><p class="source"><span>AnonIB</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p>
<p>When AnonIB came back online, every post in the /stol/ forum had been deleted. Thousands of stolen photographs and hundreds of ads for iCloud hackers had been removed. The internet's celebrity photo trading ring gradually realised that its central hub had been compromised. </p>
<p>Nonetheless, some dedicated users returned, asking for help in stealing photographs of women. They were cautioned from posting on the site, warned that journalists were monitoring AnonIB for information about how iCloud accounts were illegally accessed. </p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image"><a title_source="AnonIB" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/543518d4ecad04e72406f08f-960/screen shot 2014-10-08 at 11.57.52.png"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/543518d4ecad04e72406f08f-945-495/screen shot 2014-10-08 at 11.57.52.png" border="0" alt="AnonIB screenshot warning that James Cook is monitoring forum" /></a><p class="source"><span>AnonIB</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p>
<p>The mass leak of celebrity photos (dubbed "The Fappening" by fans amazed at the scale of the collection) forced would-be photo leakers to take to private forums and chatrooms. They communicate using a network of monikers, encrypted emailed addresses, and Google-hosted Blogger pages.</p>
<h3>Google's servers host a thriving market in hacked pictures</h3>
<p>One of the new hubs for stolen photographs of celebrities is a blog known as "Abi Wins." It's public and available for anyone to view. Abi Wins is also hosted on Google's Blogspot servers, which is unfortunate for the company which so keenly defended itself against <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/icloud-naked-celebrity-photo-hack-lawsuit-v-google-2014-10">an accusing letter from top Hollywood lawyer Marty Singer</a>. </p>
<p>In his note to Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as well as chairman Eric Schmidt, Singer accused Google of failing to remove photographs from its Blogger service. Google responded to the letter, defending its moderation procedures, remarking:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">We've removed tens of thousands of pictures -- within hours of the requests being made -- and we have closed hundreds of accounts. The Internet is used for many good things. Stealing people's private photos is not one of them.</p>
<p>The Abi Wins blog is used to index stolen photographs of celebrities obtained by accessing iCloud accounts. Users then discuss the latest leaked images using Chatango, a chatroom tool created by programmers from MIT, Caltech, and Berkeley. Business Insider contacted Chatango to inform it that stolen images were being shared using its forums. We also reached out to Google about Blogspot, and will update this post when we hear back.</p>
<p>But the Abi Wins blog is just the public gateway to the internet's celebrity photo trading ring, which lives on despite the increased press attention that occurred following the Labor Day leak.</p>
<h3>The new home for stolen pictures</h3>
<p>The celebrity photo fans who used to gather on AnonIB have a new home on the internet: Volafile. German startup Volafile offers "realtime filesharing" for large groups of people, along with a chat facility to discuss the files posted. The site allows the creation of anonymous accounts, and offers fast upload speeds. For iCloud hackers with collections of celebrity photos to offload, Volafile is a dream come true. New celebrity photo leaks are now emerging almost exclusively through Volafile.</p>
<p>When a photo collector is about to leak new stolen photographs, they post excited messages, creating hype for whatever is about to appear online.</p>
<p><strong>The left of this screenshot shows the chatroom discussion of leaked images, and the list on the right shows files uploaded to the room. A user named "realpsamathe" is excitedly announcing a new celebrity leak, posting "HERE WE GO." in the chat:</strong></p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Volafile" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/543522d76da8111c0bc2b350-960/screen_shot_2014-10-05_at_23_57_00.jpg"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/543522d76da8111c0bc2b350-1200-600/screen_shot_2014-10-05_at_23_57_00.jpg" border="0" alt="Volafile screenshot" /></a><p class="source"><span>Volafile</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p>
<p>"realpsamathe" uploaded a large video file named "THE ONE YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR." The file was a video sent by actress Abigail Spencer, known for her roles in Cowboys &amp; Aliens and the TV show Suits, to her boyfriend, actor Josh Pence, who starred in The Dark Knight and The Social Network.</p>
<p>Chatroom users rushed to thank realpsamathe for posting the stolen video.</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Volafile" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5435282e6bb3f7ef3006f08d-960/screen shot 2014-10-05 at 23.57.15.jpg"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5435282e6bb3f7ef3006f08d-439-436/screen shot 2014-10-05 at 23.57.15.jpg" border="0" alt="Volafile screenshot" /></a><p class="source"><span>Volafile</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p>
<p>As users downloaded and viewed the stolen video, which had just been shared online for the first time, they offered to send Bitcoin donations to realpsamathe. He declined, saying "I don't want donations." He instructed users to "go donate somewhere meaningful" and shared a link to a UNICEF donation page to help fight Ebola in Africa.</p>
<h3>The trade in photos of under-age celebrities</h3>
<p>Users constantly request photographs of 18-year-old Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney and actress Bella Thorne, who is aged just 17. Naked photographs of both women are alleged to have leaked online as part of the iCloud leak, and the photographs were taken while both were underage. That hasn't stopped celebrity photo fans requesting that others post the child pornography online. Every request results in a debate over the ethic of child pornography.</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Volafile" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5435416069beddf15306f08b-960/screen shot 2014-10-06 at 00.04.17.jpg"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5435416069beddf15306f08b-438-394/screen shot 2014-10-06 at 00.04.17.jpg" border="0" alt="Volafile photo leak screenshot" /></a><p class="source"><span>Volafile</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">New photographs and videos of female celebrities are still being posted online on a daily basis. "OriginalGuy," the person who first leaked the images, seems to have gone silent, but other established photo traders have realized that the industry is all but dead and are offloading their collection for Bitcoin (and the adoration of their peers) using chatrooms like Volafile.</span></p>
<p>When Business Insider contacted Volafile founder Nils Kuhnhenn, the chatrooms were deleted, along with the content hosted on Volafile and the backup chatrooms reserved for "emergency use." Kuhnhenn informed Business Insider that he deletes rooms that breach the site's terms of use as he finds them.</p>
<h3>Yet another massive cache of celebrity photos is poised to leak</h3>
<p>But there's an even more secretive side to the online photo trading industry. Private dealers still operate, using encrypted email accounts and fake names to avoid detection. After observing the conversations in the main Volafile chatroom, Business Insider learned that a dealer named "Sets Ahoy" has a substantial collection of unreleased images, potentially equal in size to the "OriginalGuy" collection that was posted online on Labor Day. (A "set" is a collection of images, usually around a dozen.)</p>
<p>Using cached versions of deleted messages on the anonymous note site Pastebin, Business Insider was able to contact Sets Ahoy through his encrypted email address. Posing as a potential buyer, Business Insider messaged the photo dealer. We didn't specify what we were looking to buy, just that we had heard he was reliable. Sets Ahoy replied within hours, telling us "You came to the right guy." He sent over his catalogue of stolen celebrity photographs and videos without any prompting. Here it is in full:</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image"><a title_source="Sets Ahoy" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5435339e6bb3f7445b06f08e-960/screen shot 2014-10-08 at 13.49.58.png"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5435339e6bb3f7445b06f08e-319-804/screen shot 2014-10-08 at 13.49.58.png" border="0" alt="Sets Ahoy Celebrity photo catalogue" /></a><p class="source"><span>Sets Ahoy</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p>
<p>Continuing to pose as an interested buyer, we expressed interest in the photographs of British model Daisy Lowe. No stolen photographs of Lowe have leaked online. If Sets Ahoy were to possess them, then it might prove there may be thousands of stolen photographs yet to be released.</p>
<p>Minutes after we expressed our interest in the Daisy Lowe photographs, Sets Ahoy replied with a price.</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image"><a title_source="Sets Ahoy" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/543535fe6bb3f7a36206f08e-960/screen_shot_2014-10-08_at_14_00_48.png"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/543535fe6bb3f7a36206f08e-691-196/screen_shot_2014-10-08_at_14_00_48.png" border="0" alt="Sets Ahoy email screenshot" /></a><p class="source"><span>Sets Ahoy</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p>
<p>For around $350 (roughly 1 bitcoin), Sets Ahoy was selling a collection of stolen naked celebrity photographs. To prove that he was in possession of the photographs, Sets Ahoy sent a Dropbox link to a sample photograph from the Daisy Lowe set. The photograph shows Lowe in a hotel bathroom with an unnamed male. Their genitals are obscured by black bars, and Sets Ahoy's email address is watermarked over the image. Sample photographs are intentionally censored by traders to reduce their value and prevent other dealers selling the same collections. Minutes after Sets Ahoy uploaded the sample to Dropbox, he deleted it to avoid detection from Dropbox's illegal content filters. Business Insider contacted Dropbox for comment on this story, and will update this post when we hear back from them.</p>
<p>Sets Ahoy sent Business Insider a Bitcoin payment address, which could be used to send him the one bitcoin he requested in payment for the stolen photographs. The address was newly created, showing no previous transactions. It's likely that it would have been deleted immediately after payment was processed, which makes sure that Sets Ahoy remains anonymous. Business Insider did not purchase any photographs, and the sample image was deleted as soon as it was received. We contacted Daisy Lowe's representatives prior to publication to inform them that their client was a target of iCloud hackers, and that stolen photographs of her were circulating online.</p>
<h3>Hundreds or thousands of photos have been stolen</h3>
<p>The collection of photographs that OriginalGuy posted online on Labor Day is by no means the full extent of the stolen material that photo traders possess. Dealers like Sets Ahoy have hundreds, possibly thousands, of photographs and videos of female actresses that they are seeking to offload. Some traders realized that OriginalGuy's leak changed the underground industry forever, and so they have taken to leaking the images online for free, as realpsamathe has been doing on Volafile.</p>
<p>It's difficult for Hollywood lawyers like Marty Singer to clamp down on the spread of stolen photographs online. For every blog shut down, and every chatroom deleted, the community of people hungry for more content moves on to another site. It's difficult to see where the community will move next, although the trend is to adopt more private networks.</p>
<p>There has been talk of a "deepweb" marketplace for stolen celebrity photographs, accessible only through the Tor web browser. Tor is constructed so that no search engine would be able to index that auction site, and nobody would be able to discover it without knowing the unique series of letters and numbers that form the URL. Until the dealers flock to the deepweb, however, the signs of the internet's underground photo trading ring remain: Cached pages, notes, emails and forums linger online for lawyers, journalists, curious internet users, and potential buyers to discover. </p>

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