A man claiming to have hacked into Pippa Middleton’s phone attempted to sell what he called “intimate” photos to a London tabloid.
The Sun reported that they were contacted Thursday by the cyber-crook, who went by the name “Crafty Cockney,” with an offer to sell them 3,000 images of Duchess of Cambridge’s younger sister.
The self-proclaimed hacker demanded “a minimum of £50,000 ($65,000)” from the newspaper’s staff within 48 hours for photos pilfered from the 33-year-old event planner’s iCloud account.
He claimed, according to the report, to have photos of the recently-engaged Middleton at her wedding dress fitting. More potentially embarrassing, he said the trove also included nude photos of her fiancé, hedge fund manager James Matthews.
As proof, the Crafty Cockney forwarded the Sun two photos showing Middleton at the wedding dress fitting with the gown hidden under a super-imposed box.
Middleton’s lawyers confirmed that her account had been “unlawfully accessed” in a statement to the Independent.
Other celebrities have been victimized through their iCloud accounts most notoriously when Jennifer Lawrence’s personal nude photos were leaked online.