Britney Spears accuses former bodyguard of hacking her private account

American singer Britney Spears has alleged that her former bodyguard Thomas Bunbury hacked into her personal devices and Apple iCloud account, and has threatened legal action against him.

According to celebrity news website TMZ, her lawyer has sent Bunbury a cease-and-desist letter demanding that he stop accessing her account without consent. He must also delete any information obtained and reveal whether any materials from the account were shared.

TMZ, which has seen the letter, added that the lawyer also threatened to report the matter to the police and press charges if Bunbury did not comply.

Bunbury was fired by Spears’ team in August 2025 after he was found to have breached his non-disclosure agreement by revealing details about the singer to her fan base and the media. The alleged hacking occurred after he was fired. According to TMZ, Spears was locked out of her account after that.

TMZ contacted him for comment, but he has not replied.

Spears, 44, dubbed the Princess of Pop, sold more than 100 million records globally during her peak in the 1990s and early 2000s through top-selling albums such as ...Baby One More Time (1999) and Oops!... I Did It Again (2000). In 2005, she won a Grammy for Best Dance Recording for the hit single Toxic.

Earlier in March, she was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence in California. Following that incident, her Instagram account was deactivated. She then returned to the platform, but made her account private.

This came after years of tabloid reports of her struggles with mental health and substance abuse, along with high-profile legal battles with her father Jamie Spears over conservatorship, and former husband Kevin Federline over custody.

In her 2023 memoir The Woman In Me, she says the tabloids exaggerated her use of substances and attributed much of her erratic behaviour to prescription medication, some given to her without her full consent.