Hackers threaten to publish Iggy Azalea sex tape if she doesn’t apologise to Azealia Banks

AFTER threatening to release stills from a so-called Iggy Azalea sex tape, hacktivists have turned their attention to MTV over its reporting of the stoush.

AUSTRALIAN rapper Iggy Azalea has been hit by an extraordinary blackmail attempt, with threats to release a sex tape unless she retracts what her attackers claim is a racist appropriation of black American culture.

The 24-year-old from Mullumbimby in northern NSW has been engaged in an ongoing Twitter stoush with Azealia Banks, a 23-year-old New York rapper, who calls Azalea “Igloo” and says her dance moves and fashion amount to stealing African American culture while ignoring the current race relations crisis over law enforcement and the African American community.

Azealia Banks is engaged in a social media war of words with Iggy Azalea.

Azalea retaliated to Banks’ remarks last week and labelled her “poisonous”, “miserable” and an “angry human being”.

Your inability to be responsible for your own mistakes, bullying others, the inability to be humble or have self control. It's YOU!

— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) December 19, 2014

The latest twist has been the intervention of TheAnonMessage Twitter account which yesterday demanded pop star Azalea apologise to Banks over the perceived insults.

The group claimed it had acquired an “X-rated” tape of Azalea and said it was prepared to leak screenshots of it if she didn’t follow its orders.

All we ask from you is that you comply with our demands. Failing to do so will grant you a one-way ticket to a life of suffering @IGGYAZALEA

— TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) December 20, 2014

The account’s administrators went on a Twitter tirade, asserting that Azalea had been “misappropriating black culture, insulting peaceful protesters, and making light of Eric Garner’s death”.

The hackers claim the images would send the rapper’s reputation “down the drain”.

Now about that sex tape. We wont release the actual video. We have values to live by.

— TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) December 20, 2014

However, we will release various snapshots of her face to confirm. The idea is not about releasing nudes. This shows nothing.

— TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) December 20, 2014

“We wont (sic) release the actual video. We have values to live by. However, we will release various snapshots of her face to confirm. The idea is not about releasing nudes. This shows nothing.

“We are not in the business of pleasing 13-year-old boys and their fantasies.”

After that, TheAnonMessage turned its attention to TV station MTV, which reported on the diatribe.

MESSAGE: If not, @MTV, you will suffer a fate worse than @SonyPictures. You have been warned. #OpMTVdown

— TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) December 21, 2014

The twitter account behind the sex tape threats has been suspended.

It appears account’s administrator has started tweeting under a back up account TheAnonMessage2.

“It’s okay everyone, we’ll be back. We just have some stuff to take care of,” they tweeted.

It is unknown whether the administrator deleted the account or whether it was taken down by authorities after the threats were made.

The Sony mention referred to a hacking incident which exposed corporate secrets and forced the cancellation of the release of the movie The Interview, about a plot to assassinated North Korean leader Kim Jon-un.

North Korea is beliebed responsible for the “Sony hack”.

Iggy Azalea performs in Chicago last week. Pic: Adam Bettcher/Getty Images for iHeartMedia

Originally published as Hackers threaten to publish Iggy Azalea sex tape if she doesn’t apologise to Azealia Banks