Clay Aiken has some not-so sympathetic words for celebrities targeted in the recent nude photo leak, E! News reported.

In an interview, the 35-year-old former "American Idol" contestant who is now seeking congressional seat in North Carolina, said that while the perpetrators need to be arrested, the victims themselves also have a part in the problem.

"Anybody who takes inappropriate pictures of themselves deserves exactly what they get," Aiken told The Washington Post. "Of course whoever [stole and released the photos] should be hogtied. And it's unfortunate that we don't have Internet security right now or the laws in place to protect people from pirating that stuff."

A number of Hollywood celebrities, including Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence and actress-model Kate Upton, reportedly had racy photos stolen from their personal accounts in late August.

The case, which marked one of the biggest breaches of celebrity privacy in the history of entertainment business, drew the attention of the FBI and launched an investigation. Apple also started its own probe, saying that there had been a "targeted attack" on celebrities in its iCloud file-sharing service.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said the celebrities involved may have fallen victim to phishing scams, leading to their iCloud login information to be leaked, according to The Wall Street Journal.

But for budding lawmaker Aiken, there is a simple way to avoid getting one's racy, personal photos online.

"I've got a mirror if I want to check something out," Aiken said.

Meanwhile, a new batch of nude photos, which resemble stars including Kim Kardashian and Vanessa Hudgens, started making rounds on the Internet on Saturday, but the photos' authenticity has yet to be confirmed.

Aiken, a father of a 6-year-old boy, rose to fame after he won second place in the second season of American Idol in 2003. The singer appeared in the Monty Python show, "Spamalot," on Broadway and in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" in 2003.

He started a career in politics in North Carolina, winning the Democratic nomination for a seat in the Second Congressional District early in the year.