The day before her sister Kate is scheduled to touch down in B.C. for a royal visit, Pippa Middleton has found herself in the middle of a major hacking scandal.
According to Britain’s The Sun, 3,000 private photographs of Pippa, 33, and her fiancé James Matthews were stolen when her iCloud was hacked.
The Sun reports that a man calling himself ‘Crafty Cockney’ asked for £50,000 ($85,000 CAD) within 48 hours for the shots. If his demand was not met he or she would sell the photos to the highest bidder.
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The hacker also claimed to have private pictures of Will and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, along with private messages sent to and from Pippa.
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Two photos of Pippa at what appeared to be her wedding dress fitting were sent as proof of the hack, according to The Sun.
The alleged iCloud hack follows a massive scandal in 2014 that saw hundreds of celebrity nude photos hacked from the same Apple service.
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