The leak has been popularly dubbed " The Fappening " and also " Celebgate ". The images were initially believed to have been obtained via a breach of Apple 's cloud services suite iCloud, [1] [2] or a security issue in the iCloud API which allowed them to make unlimited attempts at guessing victims' passwords. Most attention has been given to the candid photographs of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence, model Kate Upton and recording artist Ariana Grande, but the truth is that about 100 other actresses, models and pop stars have had their private naked photographs shared widely on the internet.