If you took the time to read Taylor Swift’s full Rolling Stone interview last year, you have no doubt that Tay-Tay keeps all of her technology/social media stuff locked down tight. She spent a lot of time talking to RS about how she doesn’t trust her iPhone, how she operates as if she’s always about to be hacked and how she takes her personal and online security very seriously. Basically, Swifty isn’t going to have any oopsie-daisy nude photos leak, either on leaked-on-purpose or leaked-because-of-hackers. But still, the hackers tried.
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, @lizard and @veriuser.
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 @lizard and @veruser were suspended by Twitter as of Tuesday afternoon.
One of Taylor’s friends or fans alerted her to her hacked Twitter account quickly, and Swifty and her team took care of the problem within a few hours (and excellent turnaround). Swifty posted this to her Tumblr: “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. Never a dull moment.” She also regained control of her Twitter and tweeted out some amusing thoughts:
Cause the hackers gonna hack, hack, hack, hack, hack…
— 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
Yeah, I don’t think she’s just putting on a brave face. She knows they don’t have anything but the ability to be a minor annoyance. Taylor was actually worried about being hacked months before the massive celebrity-nude photo leak and I just doubt that she would EVER take a nude selfie. And if she did, she wouldn’t have anything like that on her Twitter account! (Watch, now that I’ve said that, we’re going to be drowning in Swifty nudes.)
Gawker got their hands on what some people claim are some of Swifty’s DMs, but again… no nudes. She just DMs some celebrity friends (Nick Jonas, musician BØRNS) with whale puns and meet-up times for drinks and a card game. I mean, if those are her most scandalous private messages, the hackers really did get nothing. Still… I want to know what Taylor and Karlie Kloss have to say to each other in private.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.
This sparked another round of hilarious jpegs and gifs on d-listed.
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The blinds are that this is just more publicity bs..
She probably takes nudes but they’re with an old-school Polaroid camera so there’s nothing to find online. 😛
Seriously though, I think the hackers really would have to make stuff up about her, she strikes me as very savvy when it comes to her social media image and what she puts out there.
LOL! I was just thinking the same thing! Old school rules!
That reminds me of Monica’s polaroid for Chandler that Joey finds lol.
LMAO!
Are the polaroids in screaming color?
You tell em Tay Tay. Cuz lawd knows the last thing I want to be inundated with is the idea of your nude selfies.
I don’t know if this will get fake-baby-ed, from the d:
Someone posted this as a nude, TOTALLY SAFE FOR WORK:
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And someone else posted this, with the responding commentary giving me stitches from laughter:
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Rick
“Gets weirder each time somehow.”
Lol. That’s sort of how I dance.
Ha, I was just coming here to say the wafer one killed me. GutenNamen, we’ve got to work on your dance moves.
GNAT, The Taylor Swift part or the woman with the iron arm behind her?
Sort of both, Kiddo. I let the music move me.
ahahahah This is EXACTLY how I imagine her naked already and how this “scandal” feel… Like a dry single boring Vanilla Wafer
God the shake it off dancing (and even better, the outtakes) are seriously awesome. I just love how off the wall she is.
One man’s seriously awesome is another man’s painfully awkward, I guess. Perhaps it depends on the level of shrooms you had at O’Kitt’s, during the Dessert Hardy storm.
Girl has a skilled make up artist. That’s all I’ve got.
If Taylor is anything , she’s careful, I believe her that there aren’t anything on her phone other then lame complaining about Harry styles and trying to add another celebrity into her collection of friends.
Oh my! She is pretty and smart too?! Good for her.
She’s a savvy woman. No one is going to find anything on her Twitter or Insta.
Seriously, people can say what they want about her, but she’s extremely canny about her image.
No judgment here, but what makes a person want to take a nude selfie? To see what your body looks like in a picture? To show to someone else? I don’t care if other people do it, at all, I just don’t get it, even if I think back to the years when I was very proud of my body. What’s the motivation? Of course, I don’t take dressed selfies, either, so maybe it’s a generational thing.
to send them to a partner I guess? I think most young people have done it at some point, I know I have. That said, I do think that people in the public eye should be aware that this could happen.
Oh, that makes more sense. I can see how that would be fun when you’re young. Now, it might scare my husband. Lol
As an aside, you know what irks me? Moms who take selfies with their kid/s, yet mom takes up the entire center frame. Im not talking Kim K here (who just crops North out), but regular moms at Disneyland posting how much fun! they’re having, with the kids barely visible in the background. So stinking vain.
Fear of contamination of baby rashes, maybe?
Yeah, I have a friend who used a picture of her family taken at her daughter’s wedding for their Christmas card. The friend looked stunning, front and center, while the groom was making an ugly face and the bride had HER EYES CLOSED. Lol, she’s so conceited.
It’s an enticement, like talking dirty: But no where near as sex-ay as an iron arm dance move.
Well, no mere human could compete with that.
Yeah, I doubt she has any nudes. Just because it’s her, and she is paranoid regarding her image.
God she seems like a nasty person. I love it when her veil of fake is cracked, lol.
What on earth are you talking about?
She lashes out like a hyena whenever anything goes wrong. Plus, like I said. She seems really fake and nasty.
I’m honestly just tired of her untalented, spoiled butt to be honest.
What’s a veil of face?
Veil of fake, I said.
LMAO.
Oh, sorry. Stop laughing, Kiddo!
I agree frunk, she is meagerly talented 99 per cent marketing 1 per cent talent; my son has a friend that works for a firm that films live events and last year he spent a week in Nashville during the CMA’s (all of us have no use for country), and he saw swifty up close – said she was an arrogant bitch, spent four hours on 1 song, and pretty much ignored everyone, and her live singing voice was unimpressive; BTW, how can a real musician spend months away from actual singing and music – mostly posing hard on the red carpet – and then go on a major tour as she will this spring – it’s all smoke and mirrors, folks, there’s no there there.
I’m glad she disn’t have any nudes to be leaked, but good god she is so boring. I can only imagine that she has all these celebrities friends because they want publicity from hanging out with her or her public support on their own projects.
It makes me sad that releasing photos of a woman’s natural, nude body is considered a high threat. That there are hackers trying to shame women into submission by threatening something that should be innocuous, and that the women are scared. Sometimes I forget how much society hates us.
I don’t think hate is the right way to classify her right to privacy. They’re not trying to shame her into submission, they’re trying to exploit her for BitCoins. They’re criminals and they’re jerks, maybe they’re also misogynists but mostly they’re idiots.
I have said it before and I will say it again, I believe that Swifty is a robot that is shut down and recharged to perform the next day.
Seriously, best comment ever.
Magnificent observation. TS entire life seems scripted and programmed. Her sarcastic evilness is seeping out.