The images so far released online are believed to represent only a fraction of a vast archive of explicit photographs that a group of hackers has been amassing for months, possibly by compromising the stars' iCloud accounts.
But her lawyer has reportedly sent a letter to several pornography sites that have reposted the images, demanding that they remove them because Maroney was underage in several of them. Maroney, an Olympic gold medallist and world champion gymnast, tweeted that the photos of her posted online this week were 'fake'.