R&B beauty Cassie was furious when semi-naked pictures of her were leaked online - and blames her email provider for the blunder.

The singer was left shamed and furious after photos of her exposing her breasts hit the web last month.

She quickly announced the snaps had been stolen from her email account, branding the person behind the stunt "foul and evil".

And the star took to the airwaves over the weekend to slam both the hacker and web mail company Gmail - owned by search engine giant Google.

She told radio DJ JoJo Wright, "True (the snaps were leaked). Not by me. We're closer to an idea of who did it, yeah. It's being somewhat investigated. But I think we're closer to finding out who it was.

"I wasn't sure what the situation was until we asked more questions and found out more things, but it was in an old email from like last year that I had. Actually it was GMail and sometimes GMail is the worst.

"It was a year ago I took the pictures and sent them. I don't even have the pictures anymore, so that was the crazy part about it. I got a phone call about 11 at night and my stomach fell. I freaked out for a second and then, what can you do when that happens.

"A lot of people take pictures like that for their significant other and that's what it was for me, I had sent them to someone. Now I've learned not to use an email to send a picture obviously."

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