Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, better known by her stage name of Lady Gaga, has taken aim at hackers who leaked her latest single. The song, Applause, was her first release since 2011 and was originally scheduled to be released on 19 August 2013. The single was brought forward a week after the leak of several snippets of the song was posted online. The singer has almost 40 million of her fans following her every word on Twitter, a social network where the pack mentality is alive.”]

