March 19: An account on Twitter claims to have hacked Anne’s icloud & begins to “leak” pictures from it
March 19: Within a few hours, UK publications began to report that Anne’s account had been hacked and new Hendall pictures taken on the yacht were being leaked online
March 19: Anne deactivates her Twitter account and Instagram
March 20: The same person, after creating several new Twitter accounts, continues to leak pictures
March 20: Gemma tweets about the “hack,” expressing displeasure at twitter accounts pretending to be Anne
March 21: Yup, same person still leaking pictures
March 22: 4 blessed days later, it ends
March 23: Kendall’s cover of Vogue is released and the issue contains 52 entire pages dedicated to Kendall
March 23: The same day, @boufantgirl posts that her friend who works at an unnamed newspaper recieved a letter from Harry’s legal representation warning the paper against posting any pictures from the “hack”
March 23: TMZ continues to post leaked pictures from the hack with no legal repercussions
March 28: Anne reactivates her Instagram account, but sets it to private (for 1.5M followers)
Stunningly:
At no point did Harry or Anne make public statements
At no point did anyone else pictured in the photographs make statements (Kendall, Jeff Azoff, Robin)
At no point did the “hacker” suffer legal repercussions or even have their IP banned from Twitter after making some 6-8 different accounts to tweet the “hacked” pictures.
95% of all stories published about the hack were just to announce “new” and “private” Hendall pictures
That is how you (badly) fake a hacked iCloud and Twitter leak to generate publicity.