Hacker steals Shakira photos

ROMANTIC photos of singer Shakira holding hands with Barcelona football player Gerard Pique circulating on the internet were stolen by a hacker from a Spanish news agency.

The agency Gtres-Online had been planning to sell the pictures to Spanish and other publications as exclusives.

Gtres-Online sales director Manuel Montero said the photos taken by paparazzi were stolen by a hacker, probably from a temporary internet file that agencies like his use.

He said the shots of the couple outside a Barcelona restaurant were then downloaded onto a Shakira fan website called Shakira Gallery.

Rumours that the Colombian singer and the member of Spain’s World Cup winning team were an item surfaced during last year’s tournament in South Africa.