A recent attorney letter to Google has threatened a lawsuit seeking $100 million or more in damages related to the public distribution of celebrities personal images. The letter came from a firm that now represents more than a dozen high-profile women whose photos were stolen and then posted online.

Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton were among the first celebs targeted with pictures appearing on sites including 4chan and Reddit over the Labor Day weekend. Since then, personal photos of other famous women have also been distributed. Many of these images came from private Apple iCloud accounts that were hacked.

The Internet giant, however, said Thursday that it had quickly taken down “tens of thousands of pictures” and “closed hundreds of accounts” related to the photo hacking incident, which is being investigated by the FBI.

Attorney Martin Singer’s letter accused the Internet giant of failing to act quickly and effectively when asked to remove the personal pictures from sites it owns, including YouTube and Blogspot.

“[B]ecause the victims are celebrities with valuable publicity rights, you do nothing – – nothing but collect millions of dollars in advertising revenue from your co-conspirator advertising partners as you seek to capitalize on this scandal rather than quash it,” the letter said. “Like the NFL,… Google has turned a blind eye while its sites repeatedly exploit and victimize these women.”

The Internet company whose motto is “Don’t be evil” responded publicly on Thursday. “We’ve removed tens of thousands of pictures — within hours of the requests being made — and we have closed hundreds of accounts,” a Google spokesperson told the Los Angeles Times in a statement. “The Internet is used for many good things. Stealing people’s private photos is not one of them.”

The letter demanded that Google remove all of the stolen images, suspend the posting users, suspend sites that solicit or facilitate the distribution of the pictures, and remove search-engine results. It was addressed to Google co-founders Sergey Brin and CEO Larry Page, executive chairman Eric E. Schmidt and top members of the company’s legal team.