Ariana Grande filed a lawsuit on Monday within the Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom in opposition to the presently unidentified hackers who allegedly stole and leaked non-public content material. It goals to “uncover the identities of those presently unknown and unscrupulous people,” known as “John Doe 1 and John Does 2 by way of 100.” The lawsuit additionally says that “In 2023 alone, 45 unreleased songs” had been “hacked, stolen, and leaked,” including that tons of of comparable leaks have occurred since Grande’s music debut in 2011.
The stolen content material is claimed to incorporate “still-in-production, unreleased masters and demos, footage from recording classes, music movies, behind-the-scenes images and movies, in addition to album and photoshoot outtakes.”
The lawsuit accuses the unidentified hackers of promoting the content material, in addition to publishing it on social media platforms like X, TikTok, and YouTube. It claims their actions are invading her privateness and violating California’s Complete Information Entry and Fraud Act, a legislation in opposition to unauthorized pc entry that has come up in instances together with Sony’s lawsuit against George Hotz and Meta’s lawsuit against the Pegasus spyware.
As reported earlier by Variety, the lawsuit claims the hackers have repeatedly focused individuals who work with Grande. In a single incident in 2019, hackers stole Grande’s pictures from a photographer’s Dropbox account. The next 12 months, unreleased footage was stolen from a producer’s hacked “cell system.” In 2024, scammers used phishing emails to get unreleased pictures from a technician working with one in all Grande’s photographers.