By
Emily Leibert,
a staff writer for The Cut.
She specializes in coverage at the intersection of gender and sports, the arts, and our relationship to our bodies.
On Monday, Ariana Grande filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles claiming a group of anonymous hackers gained access to her collaborators’ devices and leaked unreleased songs and footage. Per Variety, the defendants, who are listed as “John Doe,” have allegedly been breaching various phones and computers of Grande’s collaborators since 2011 and selling Grande’s data and content for “significant sums of money.” Grande accused the hackers of violating the “sacred relationship that exists between her and her fans” and is suing for invasion of privacy, violation of California computer-hacking laws, and conversion. Her lawyers stated in the suit, according to Rolling Stone, that the “malicious invasion of Ms. Grande’s privacy and disruption of her career have caused her substantial and irreparable harm due to this breach of privacy.”
