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US-based ‘Adelaide Girls’ website featuring stolen nude images shuts down, but database remains online and accessible through other sites

EXCLUSIVE: An illicit database featuring stolen nude and explicit images of Adelaide women and teens has migrated to three other websites and expanded to include “faked” pornographic photos.

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AN illicit database featuring stolen nude and explicit images of Adelaide women and teens has migrated to three other websites and expanded to include “faked” pornographic photos.

Contributors to the database, which is under SA Police investigation, are now offering to create Photoshop manipulations of normal photos so women appear to be involved in sex acts.

Although the original site linking to the database, revealed by The Advertiser on Wednesday, has been deleted, three other sites have continued to promote it.

Those operating the database are now accepting requests for “x-ray” or “nude shop” images — original pictures digitally manipulated to simulate pornographic situations.

SA Police today confirmed the material remained available online through other sources, regardless of the status of the original site.

On that site, the user who posted the photos promised access to Adelaide “chicks” in various states of undress and told victims “you cannot do anything to stop us”.

They were supported by a moderator of the site — which The Advertiser will not name — who said it was exempt from SA law because it is based in the US.

Women whose photos appear on the site say the images have been taken from private Facebook accounts or shared by former boyfriends as “revenge porn”.

Amy Cornes — pictured with her football legend father Graham last year — is one of the Adelaide women whose images have been exploited on the sleazy website. She has spoken out about the invasion of her privacy. Picture: David Cronin
Amy Cornes — pictured with her football legend father Graham last year — is one of the Adelaide women whose images have been exploited on the sleazy website. She has spoken out about the invasion of her privacy. Picture: David Cronin

One of those affected was Amy Cornes, the daughter of SA football legend Graham, who chose to fight back against the “pathetic people” who had invaded her privacy.

She re-uploaded one of the images — taken in a shower two years ago — to her Facebook page in a show of defiance.

Today a person who has viewed the three new sites, and asked not to be named, said they each included links to the original database of more than 400 women.

In posts, users of the sites have been “requesting Photoshops of girls”.

“They are putting up images that are fully clothed, and asking they be ‘X-rayed’ or ‘nude shopped’ into fake nude pictures,” the person said.

“Some have gone so far as to Photoshop women into pornographic scenes, or superimpose genitals near their faces, implying they’ve done pornographic shoots.

“It wasn’t bad enough that these people were leaking stolen nude photos — now they’re making fake content on demand.”

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