Britain's Got Talent star George Sampson 'latest victim'

George Sampson, a former Britain's Got Talent winner, has reportedly become the latest star to have naked pictures leaked on the internet.

The 21-year-old dancer is said to have fallen victim to an internet hack of images uploaded to photo sharing app Snapchat, in an event dubbed The Snappening.

Explicit images of Sampson, also an actor who has appeared on the BBC's Waterloo Road, were released on social media on Tuesday evening, according to The Mirror.

It comes after hackers accessed around 100,000 private photos and videos of Snapchat users over several years using a third-party service that saves images. Many have then appeared on the 4Chan website.

As half of Snapchat’s users are aged between 13 and 17, there is concern many of the images might be of children.

Sampson, who won ITV's Britain's Got Talent in 2008 with a breakdance routine to Singin' in the Rain, is the latest celebrity to allegedly have naked pictures released online in the last month.

The Hunger Games actress Jennifer Lawrence, former Doctor Who actor Matt Smith and Nick Hogan, the reality television star son of former wrestler Hulk Hogan, are among the most high-profile victims.

Snapchat said at the weekend it was not the source of the latest leak and it strictly prohibits use of third party apps, which are created by separate developers as "add-ons".

Users who have downloaded the file of images are said to have reported it containing a large amount of child pornography.

Photos sent via Snapchat are kept on people's phones for 30 days if they have not been opened.

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