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Actress Kaley Cuoco arrives at the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California January 12, 2014DANNY MOLOSHOK/Reuters

Get ready for the second wave of naked photographs featuring unwitting celebrities.

More nude images of famous people have been leaked online, most likely by the same hacker who posted dozens of inappropriate images to an Internet forum earlier this month.

The new set of images reportedly include hacked images of pop star Rihanna, reality-TV personality Kim Kardashian, former Disney Channel star Vanessa Hudgens and U.S. Olympic soccer team goalie Hope Solo.

The second set of photographs reportedly include previously-unreleased photos of female celebrities who were exposed in the first leak, including Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence and Kaley Cuoco, star of the top-rated CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory.

The new set of images first appeared Saturday morning on the anonymous website 4chan and were subsequently reposted by Reddit users (Reddit administrators have since removed the shots).

Earlier this month, the celebrity world was thrown into a tizzy after dozens of nude celebrity photos – supposedly obtained from the stars' personal smartphones and other devices – first appeared on the 4chan website.

The celebrities in the first wave of leaked photos include Lawrence and Cuoco and Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kate Upton. Through her publicist, Lawrence released a statement declaring the leaked photos "a flagrant violation of privacy."

The personal photos were reportedly obtained by the unidentified individual hacking into individual iCloud accounts. The FBI is currently investigating the first set of hacked photos.

In wake of the leaked-photo scandal, Apple recently said it is beefing up security to prevent similar security breaches in the future.

Meanwhile, at least one semi-famous person is showing no sympathy for the hacking victims.

In a recent interview with the Washington Post, former American Idol contestant Clay Aiken stated bluntly, "Anybody who takes inappropriate pictures of themselves deserves exactly what they get."

But since Aiken is also currently the Democratic candidate running for a seat in North Carolina's 2nd congressional district, he did manage to elicit some form of diplomacy.

"Of course, whoever [stole and released the photos] should be hogtied," said Aiken. "And it's unfortunate that we don't have Internet security right now or the laws in place to protect people from pirating that stuff."

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