Attorneys representing celebrities whose private pictures were published online by the hackers have recently claimed they can sue Google for $100 million, because the tech giant is making millions from the victimization of women.

As everyone knows, nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Rihanna and other celebrities leaked to the Internet in September, causing the largest celebrity hacking scandal in history.

As a result, the famous entertainment lawyer Martin Singer demanded Google to compensate its “unethical behavior”. His LA-based firm Lavely & Singer represents over a dozen of the women suffered from the leak, the director Bryan Singer and the actors John Travolta and Charlie Sheen. The lawyer wrote a letter to Google’s co-founders and other top executives, accusing the company of failing to remove the images and video and of knowingly facilitating the illegal conduct.

The letter is sent on behalf of his unnamed clients and says that a notice was sent to Google asking to remove the images a month ago, but many are still available across various Google services, including BlogSpot and YouTube.

Martin Singer explained that after the images were released over the Labor Day holiday weekend, the law firm had written to website operators and Internet service providers demanding that the images be taken down under the (DMCA, which requires tech companies to “expeditiously” remove illegal images from their servers.

The lawyer pointed out that the vast majority of those websites and broadband providers, all of which are much smaller than Google, complied with the request and removed the images within a few hours after receiving the DMCA notice. But Google, who has much more resources and staff, had allowed the violations to continue, apparently with the purpose to capitalize on this scandal rather than quash it.

In response, a Google spokesman said that the company has removed tens of thousands of pictures within hours after the requests had been made and closed hundreds of accounts violating the rules.

However, if the lawyer brings his suit to court, it won’t be new to Google, as the company has already faced legal action over inadvertently facilitating the spread of nude pictures. For example, in March 2014, Hollie Toups, 34, sued two tech giants – Yahoo and Google – for failing to remove links to her pictures hosted on a revenge porn website. She also claimed that she had sent Google a notice to delete the links, but Google had refused to comply.