New York Daily News

LESLIE’S NET HELL

Hackers put hate, nude pix on site

- BY PETER SBLENDORIO

WEEKS AFTER being attacked by a mob of racist Twitter trolls, comedienne Leslie Jones has become the latest celebrity to become a hacking victim.

Someone cracked into the “Ghostbuste­rs” star’s website and exposed what appeared to be private nude photos of her.

The horrifying hack also included filling the site with images of the “Saturday Night Live” comedienne’s driver’s license and passport, revealing her personal informatio­n.

A video of Harambe, the gorilla who was shot and killed at a Cincinnati Zoo earlier this summer, was also posted to the top of her website.

The explicit and horribly racist content is the latest hate-filled attack on the 48-year-old entertaine­r, who was ambushed with malicious diatribes from internet trolls last month. Among the cruelest comments she received were posts comparing her to a gorilla.

The vile online bullying prompted Jones to repost a slew of the vulgar comments she received, before briefly quitting Twitter in response.

The sexist slurs and racist remarks were allegedly sparked by users who were knocking the African-American actress’ lead role as Patty Tolan in “Ghostbuste­rs.”

“I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart,” she wrote in July. “All this cause I did a movie. You can hate the movie but the s--t I got today . . . wrong.”

Following the horrific incident, she met with Twitter execs to talk about ways to prevent abusive users from spewing hate on the social media site.

“They helped me out. We got a whole bunch of accounts taken off on Twitter,” she said on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” last month.

Jones refused to give in to the haters — instead using her platform to raise awareness on cyberbully­ing when she returned to Twitter.

“Hate speech and freedom of speech, two different things,” she added.

Bigoted Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoul­os — who took an online dig at Jones for fighting back against trolls — was permanentl­y banned from Twitter on July 19, though the website never confirmed why he got the ax.

On Wednesday, Yiannopoul­os shared a cryptic Snapchat photo captioned “Karma’s a b---h,” only to follow it up a minute later with another that read, “S--t just heard about Leslie Jones. Had no idea!!! Ignore that karma thing lol.”

Meanwhile, Questlove Gomez, a frontman for late-night TV host Jimmy Fallon’s band and Jones’ NBC colleague, came to the actress’ defense.

“These acts against leslie jones . . . are sickening,” he tweeted. “Its racist & sexist. it’s disgusting. this is hate crimes. this aint ‘kids joshing round.’ ”

Paul Feig, Jones’ “Ghostbuste­rs” director, added, “What’s happening to @Lesdoggg is an absolute outrage. Alt right, haters, trolls, ‘comedians,’ whoever the f--- you all are, you’re just sad.”

Jones’ website has since been taken down.

A rep for the actress did not respond to a Daily News request for comment.

 ??  ?? “Ghostbuste­rs” star Leslie Jones tweets (below) after July attacks. Wednesday hack exposed personal info (top).
“Ghostbuste­rs” star Leslie Jones tweets (below) after July attacks. Wednesday hack exposed personal info (top).

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