So what do we know about the celebrity photo hacks? While it’s highly unlikely to be a security issue with iCloud, the incident has served to remind us all of the issues around internet security in general. They demanded donations via PayPal and Bitcoin in exchange for posting them, but only received 0.2545 BTC in donations, which is verifiable at this address: 18pgUn3BBBdnQjKG8ZGedFvcoVcsv1knWa The anonymous hacker who originally posted the images first on 4Chan claimed they were taken from iCloud accounts. Many of the photos have been confirmed as being genuine, most notably by Lawrence. As a reminder, iCloud automatically stores photos, email, contacts and other information online, allowing users to sync this data across different devices. UPDATE: Clearly this post was written very early on in this incident and information has since come to light which suggests Apple has majorly dropped the ball.Īs you will by now have probably read, around 100 women celebrities (including Jennifer Lawrence, Ariana Grande, Victoria Justice and Kate Upton) have had naked and explicit pictures seemingly hacked from their iCloud accounts and published online, first on 4Chan and now all over the place.
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