Ariana Grande Sues Hackers for Leaking Unreleased Music and Footage
Ariana Grande has filed a lawsuit against anonymous hackers, claiming that they gained backdoor access to devices that led to the leak of unreleased songs...
Key points
- Ariana Grande has filed a lawsuit against anonymous hackers, claiming that they gained backdoor access to devices that led to the leak of unreleased songs and footage from recording sessions and music videos.
- The suit, filed on Monday in Los Angeles and reviewed by Variety, targets a group of unnamed John Does for phishing scams and hacking schemes that have caused “unlawful and egregious theft, dissemination, and exploitation of unreleased content.” Grande’s legal team outlines a pattern of illegal behavior in which hackers targeted the personal digital accounts of photographers and producers who worked closely with her and subsequently sold the data and content for “significant sums of money.” Grande is suing unnamed John Does to “uncover the identities of these currently unknown and unscrupulous individuals in order to hold them accountable for their invasive and reprehensible conduct.” The suit states that “it is imperative to Ms.
- It claims that in 2019, hackers acquired the login for a Dropbox account that belonged to a photographer who had worked with Grande.
- The following year, the defendants hacked into the mobile device of a producer who had collaborated with Grande and accessed unreleased masters and demos and footage from recording sessions.
What happened
Ariana Grande has filed a lawsuit against anonymous hackers, claiming that they gained backdoor access to devices that led to the leak of unreleased songs and footage from recording sessions and music videos. The suit, filed on Monday in Los Angeles and reviewed by Variety, targets a group of unnamed John Does for phishing scams and hacking schemes that have caused “unlawful and egregious theft, dissemination, and exploitation of unreleased content.” Grande’s legal team outlines a pattern of illegal behavior in which hackers targeted the personal digital accounts of photographers and producers who worked closely with her and subsequently sold the data and content for “significant sums of money.” Grande is suing unnamed John Does to “uncover the identities of these currently unknown and unscrupulous individuals in order to hold them accountable for their invasive and reprehensible conduct.” The suit states that “it is imperative to Ms. It claims that in 2019, hackers acquired the login for a Dropbox account that belonged to a photographer who had worked with Grande. The following year, the defendants hacked into the mobile device of a producer who had collaborated with Grande and...