assistant commissioner wong said the source of the pictures had been traced, but he would not confirm reports stating that they had been taken from chen's computer. he added that the authenticity of the photographs was no longer in question. wong also said of the six women found in the photographs, four were local celebrities and two were unknown to the police. none of the women were named. wong was certain that no overseas artists were involved. he said that whilst it was not a crime to transfer the pictures to friends, those who had posted the images to internet web pages could be in breach of the law. on 5 february, as another of the suspects was released on hk$50,000 bail, six more related photographs surfaced on the internet. in the early hours on chinese new year's eve, several hundred more photographs appeared on the internet; there were two new faces.