So what is Fappning, What does The Fappening mean? The Fappening refers to an event that began on 31 August 2014, when an iCloud hack resulted in nude photos of dozens of celebrities being released online.
The fappening, also known as TheFappening or Celebgate, refers to the hacking and leaking of hundreds of nude photos of over 100 celebrities, including most notoriously Jennifer Lawrence and Rihanna back in 2014.
The Cloud leaked pictures were shared on the now-closed image-sharing forum 4chan as well as Reddit and once published on the forums, which attract millions of users every month, tracing and deleting the images from the web became a messy, legally challenging, and difficult task.
The man behind the leaked photos hacked into celebrities’ iCloud accounts by sending phishing emails to the affected individuals’ Gmail accounts. It is reported that the hacker requested the victims to provide their usernames and passwords using emails that imitated the look and feel of an official email from Google or Apple. Once in, the hacker downloaded hundreds of private photos from these accounts and swiftly published them, making internet history for what were the worst celebrity leaks ever.