A new twist has come to this morning’s shocking story of actresses Akshara Haasan’s and Amy Jackson’s cell phones being hacked and private photos of Kamal Haasan’s daughter in her underwear being leaked on Twitter.

According to sources, the hacker is alleged to have called the two actresses and warned them that he had broken into their phones and was going to make their private photos viral. If this is true, why he did this is not clear.

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While Akshara has made police complaints at the Cyber Crime Cells in Mumbai and Chennai, there is no mention in the reports of the hacker getting in touch with the actress for reasons of blackmail or otherwise.

Meanwhile, poor Akshara found to her embarrassment that rather private selfies taken by her had gone viral on social media this morning. There is no confirmation, yet, if these pictures are really hers or they have been morphed. The actress, who made her Bollywood debut in 2015 opposite Dhanush and Amitabh Bachchan in Shamitabh, got her PR manager to vehemently deny the photos were hers and claim that they had been doctored.

Further news is that the hacker targeted 13 actresses in all out of which three are from Bollywood and the rest from the Telugu and Kannada film industries. Joining the Chennai and Mumbai police in the hunt for the sinister hacker is the Bengaluru police as well.