Transcript for Lindsey Vonn slams 'despicable' leak of intimate photos hacked from phone

The latest celebrity photo hack. Tiger Woods and Lindsey vonn threatening legal action against a site that published nude photos of the former couple along with other stars and linsey Davis has those details. Reporter: Explosive and embarrassing this latest photo scandal has lawyers for multiple celebrities threatening take the pictures down or else. Lindsey vonn's spokesperson said she will take all necessary and appropriate legal action to protect and enforce her rights and interests. The race down the hill. Reporter: Olympic skier Lindsey vonn is contemplating legal action after nude photos of her and ex-boyfriend tiger Woods was posted online. The couple who broke up in 2015 reportedly shared intimate photos and videos while they were dating. Vonn's phone was reportedly hacked. Her pictures leaked and posted for all to see on a gossip website that features nude photos and videos of celebrities including "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart and Katharine Mcphee. A representative for vonn told ABC news it is an outrageous and despicable invasion of privacy for anyone to steal and illegal publish private intimate photos adding websites that encourage this should be prosecuted to the fullest extent under the law. Attorneys for them have told the site to act expeditiously to remove and permanently disable access to the photos but the website's operator denies they stole them directly from the celebs telling ABC news they will not remove Rhem saying we got the pictures from different message boards around the internet. We did not hack them. The website that is sharing photographs without the consent of the individual also subs itself to liability. Reporter: Hackers frequently target female celebrities. Miley Cyrus, Emma Watson and Jennifer Lawrence have all had private images exposed on the internet. The 29-year-old who hacked Lawrence was sentenced to nine months from prison. "The hunger games" star called the experience terrifying telling "Vogue" it's scary when you feel the whole world judges you adding I think people saw the hacking for what it was, which was a sex crime but that feeling, I haven't been able to get rid of it. For those hell bent on sending these pictures there is an app for that called remookie regarded as the prenup for it and safeguards them by encrypting them on your phone and set expiration, a little news you can use and according to a recent survey, about 50% of Americans could use this app. Oh,4my goodness. Well, that is a lot of news I didn't necessarily need to know but thank you, linsey. All right. For more we'll bring in legal analyst Dan Abrams and media expert Larry Hackett. So, Larry, we see all the names, the list. This is a big problem. It is a huge problem. People, as long as there is an internet people will want to see them with pictures like this and they are human beings. The thing about celebs they like to be famous most of the time but in those most intimate moments which we all share they forget they're celebrities and end up with these things in their telephone and whether it's Hollywood celebs or the DNC people know how to hack phones and it's going to get worse until people stop having them on their phone. Why do you need to take them? The website which is interesting is doubling down refusing to take down these specific photos so how good of a case do tiger Woods and Lindsey vonn have with this. Criminal from civil. When it comes to criminal charges that would be the person who hacked the phones. No question that person could be charged criminally. When you're the media answer hit who is distributing it you're talking about a civil. How do you get them to take it down, are there money damages? Two basic claims. Number one it would be copyright meaning apparently Tiger Woods took this photo so if he took the photo, he owns the copyright and as a result, he could say as the copyright owner you better take this down because this picture belongs to me. The second way they could go about it is by saying it's an invasion of privacy. Remember, the Gawker hulk hogan lawsuit, a similar type of claim happened there. The problem is that you have to have someone on the other side who cares about potentially losing an enormous judgment. So far it seems that the website doesn't really particularly care because there's no question that the copyright case is a very strong one and that the invasion of privacy one, probably the strong one but you need someone on the other side would care sfs they don't care. We're not naming this website and this person who runs this website knows that. What he is holding out for is that people start naming this website. If he gets sued we'll eventually have to name it. He wants attention. And then he knows the next time he has photographs someone -- He gets hits. There is a trick they'll do. Sometimes they'll say they won't respond and then two or three days later they'll agree to take down the photos. Why, because they've gotten all the traffic in those two or three days and everyone has already seen it. He doesn't care right now. He's holding out as long as possible to get as much attention as possible. What can celebs do other than not take the photos to begin with. Well, either encrypt them. Make sure they're deleted to anything related -- it's really hard. I'm stopping myself because -- exactly. No, it's a really tough spot that they're in in terms of, look, if you're a celebrity and you're taking nude photos, there's a risk. That's it. I don't know how else to say it from these are 3-year-old photographs and you take a picture and forget about it sitting on your phone with 10,000 other pictures. The idea is if you break up get rid of the pictures. Get rid of is a hard thing to do when you're talking about being on the cloud, et cetera. We've established it. The only way to fully be protected. Thanks very much.

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