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Nicole Scherzinger and Lewis Hamilton’s intimate video seen 600,000 times after hack despite legal battle to get it taken down
NICOLE Scherzinger and Lewis Hamilton's hacked video has been viewed more than 600,000 times despite a furious legal battle to remove it from the internet.
The mobile phone clip is two and a half minutes long and shows the former couple kissing and cuddling on a bed before their split in 2015.
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Nicole, 40, and F1 champ Lewis, 32, are the latest celebs to fall victim to hackers, who obtained the clip via cracking their passwords for iCloud, social media or messaging accounts.
The leaked footage had been watched 286,000 times just a day after it was shared online, but that number has since soared to 600,000.
Nicole has mounted a legal battle to get it wiped from the internet and is "distressed and worried" that more leaks will follow.
A source tells The Sun Online: "Nicole will be heartbroken that such footage has found its way online.
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"It was never intended for the public domain ... Nicole wants it down.
"It’s hugely embarrassing and distressing for her to have something this intimate and private out there.
"Nicole’s very worried that more videos and pictures will be leaked in the next couple of days.
"She’s particularly worried as she deleted that video a long time ago, so it must have been hacked from the Cloud."
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Nicole and Lewis dated on and off for eight years before splitting in 2015.
Speaking about the split the following year Lewis revealed he loved his sets of wheels more than her and said: “My cars are my babies.
“I used to say, when I had a girlfriend, ‘I’m taking one of the girls out, so you can come if you want, but you come second when it comes to the cars.”
The Sun Online has contacted their reps for comment.
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Back in 2014, hackers obtained hundreds of celebrity iCloud accounts, including Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton, and posted their intimate pictures on Reddit.
At the time Jennifer described the horror of having naked pictures stolen and leaked online as "like being gang-banged by the f***ing planet".
She added to: "When the hacking thing happened, it was so unbelievably violating that you can't even put it into words."
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