
Refinery29 has reached out the Department of Defense and representatives for the Marines for comment. Vice ominously notes that there are several other closed male-only Marines Facebook groups that may be trading similar material. The images in the current scandal come from a similar Facebook group that sprung up when Marines United was shut down after the initial scandal broke. 97 Marines were implicated in the original scandal following an investigation seven were later court-martialed. It follows prior reports of Emma Watson and Amanda Seyfried having had private photos leaked onto. Some of the nude images were tagged “legacy,” meaning they originated from the first revenge porn scandal.Ĭongress passed a law in December 2017 that made the "wrongful broadcast or distribution of intimate visual images" a criminal offense, subject to military court-martial and dishonorable discharge. A new celebrity photo hacking scandal has erupted in what people are calling the 'Fappening 2.0'.

Last year, the Center for Investigative Reporting broke the story of a secret Facebook group called Marines United that shared explicit images of female service members. This is the second time that the Marines have dealt with a non-consensual nude photo sharing or “revenge porn” scandal. The scandal that prompted an investigation into hundreds of Marines who are accused of sharing naked photographs of their colleagues in a private Facebook group is much larger than has been.
