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Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams topless photos leaked

Maisie Williams’ topless photo surfaced on Instagram over the weekend after it was stolen from her private social account. With this alleged hack, Williams joins the list of A-listers with leaked photos since 2014. It’s vital to keep personal photos private by preventing hacks altogether. You can simply prevent these risks by avoiding malicious links found on social networks and running Quick AV for malware and software antiphishing on your phone immediately.

In addition to spying on the actress’ personal files, the hackers divulged naked pictures of the actress on internet. According to PSafe’s Security team, this breed of threat may have come from Gooligan, a strain of malware that recently infected 1.3 million Android phones, stealing tokens from devices in order to impersonate the user’s Google account. Malware has the ability to steal passwords and access private accounts, and apps without your consent. This type of threat is dangerous usually installed on cell phones through coups on social networks and e-mail.

Criminals spread links with false promises of making money, mobile credit, and giveaways. But it’s all a lie! It’s goal is to install viruses and hack your device. Our recommendation is that you tap below to scan your device and make sure your cellphone is safe.

PSafe provides comprehensive anti-hacking protection through a suite of features that protect the user from both traditional malware attacks such as downloading a file (photo, video, audio clip) or APK with a malicious payload as well as social engineering related attacks driven by browser-based phishing. It’s imperative to allow PSafe to run regular scans for such threats by running the application or tapping the button below.

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