Lawyers for ESPN reporter Erin Andrews are threatening legal action against whoever’s responsible for videotaping her nude in a hotel room and posting the video on the Internet.
The video of the 31-year-old Atlanta resident was taken through the hotel room’s peephole.
“While alone in the privacy of her hotel room, Erin Andrews was surreptitiously videotaped without her knowledge or consent,” said Marshall B. Grossman of Bingham McCutchen LLP. “She was the victim of a crime and is taking action to protect herself and help ensure that others are not similarly violated in the future. Although the perpetrator or perpetrators of this criminal act have not yet been identified, when they are identified she intends to bring both civil and criminal charges against them and against anyone who has published the material.”
Meanwhile, thousands of Internet voyeurs have themselves fallen prey to hackers, who spread a virus on bogus sites claiming to have the video.
“Hackers are no slacks when it comes to taking advantage of a hot Internet search trend. And they have been quick to set up bogus Web pages claiming to contain the video footage of Ms. Andrews in her hotel room,” Graham Cluley of the anti-virus software company Sophos told USA Today.
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