Hacked Celebrity Photos
Discussion
clonmult said:
chris watton said:
If you're a celebrity, presumably, you'd know you'd be more susceptible to possible hacking - so why keep such photos of yourself on your hard drive?
Unless of course, you wanted them to be found....
These pictures weren't on a "hard drive" as such, they were on Apples "iCloud" backup service. Delete pictures from your iPhone, they're still there on the cloud for restoration as and when you want.Unless of course, you wanted them to be found....
Obviously there are some issues with either the specific security used by these celebs (easily guessed password reset questions?) or something fundamentally flawed with the iCloud security.
No I know that, I meant more like in a hotel room, just had a shower, and fancied a quick nude mirror selfie, seems odd.
Especially given the fact a fair few of these seem to have been deleted from the PC but the phone still had a back up, hence why its apple only stuff.
Apple lawyers going to be s
tting themselves about now.
Also, men worldwide wail out as they realise emma Watson uses android!
Especially given the fact a fair few of these seem to have been deleted from the PC but the phone still had a back up, hence why its apple only stuff.
Apple lawyers going to be s
tting themselves about now.Also, men worldwide wail out as they realise emma Watson uses android!
Silent1 said:
The point of taking a photo like that sort of negates storing it in nuclear secrecy though doesn't it!
Sorry, to be a little clearer.If you are a gold standard A lister with Directors and so on offering you large cheques to show your boobs off, you either A) never have a photo like this taken until you have cashed the Cheque and the film has been released or B) store any such photos you might have taken for the amusement of your loved one (or just to reassure yourself in your 90's that they really did sit above the bottom of your ribcage once upon a time) in near nuclear security.
Rick_1138 said:
No I know that, I meant more like in a hotel room, just had a shower, and fancied a quick nude mirror selfie, seems odd.
Especially given the fact a fair few of these seem to have been deleted from the PC but the phone still had a back up, hence why its apple only stuff.
Apple lawyers going to be stting themselves about now.
Also, men worldwide wail out as they realise emma Watson uses android!
I think if you take the number of hotels these people are in, how hot they are (or think they are), how much time they have and how many showers they take......it's odd there are so few of them!Especially given the fact a fair few of these seem to have been deleted from the PC but the phone still had a back up, hence why its apple only stuff.
Apple lawyers going to be s
tting themselves about now.Also, men worldwide wail out as they realise emma Watson uses android!
Rick_1138 said:
Apple lawyers going to be stting themselves about now.
Doubt it. Icloud's T&C's;tting themselves about now.'APPLE DOES NOT REPRESENT OR GUARANTEE THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE FREE FROM LOSS, CORRUPTION, ATTACK, VIRUSES, INTERFERENCE, HACKING, OR OTHER SECURITY INTRUSION, AND APPLE DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY RELATING THERETO.'
chris watton said:
clonmult said:
chris watton said:
If you're a celebrity, presumably, you'd know you'd be more susceptible to possible hacking - so why keep such photos of yourself on your hard drive?
Unless of course, you wanted them to be found....
These pictures weren't on a "hard drive" as such, they were on Apples "iCloud" backup service. Delete pictures from your iPhone, they're still there on the cloud for restoration as and when you want.Unless of course, you wanted them to be found....
Obviously there are some issues with either the specific security used by these celebs (easily guessed password reset questions?) or something fundamentally flawed with the iCloud security.
But I do think this must have been a targeted hack. The amount of data available to a complete hack of the entire iCloud would likely make it impossible to find any specific data. Although without knowing the specifics of iCloud structure anything I say would be pure guesswork.
vescaegg said:
It is quite frankly astounding that any of these people had the pictures stored anywhere non-secure. Some of these are big big names. Its crazy. Surely an agent/publicist would ask instantly when taking a client on if stuff like this existed?!
Thing is that iCloud is supposed to be secure .... Apple are probably prepping their defence lawyers. And probably also getting a squad of crack ninja lawyers working on the identity of the hacker and getting him holed up.
clonmult said:
Thing is that iCloud is supposed to be secure .... Apple are probably prepping their defence lawyers. And probably also getting a squad of crack ninja lawyers working on the identity of the hacker and getting him holed up.on the payroll.
EF what I suspect is more likely..."Hacking" in this sort of context usually just means "guessing password", either because the user had a rubbish password (password1 is still one of the most popular 
).
Alternatively it could be a brute force attack where they systematically try logging in with all the common passwords until one gets them in.
It's pretty easy to find enough information about a celebrity to design a system that would fire off a few thousand guesses based on kid's names, significant dates etc.
If it's a brute force attack you could argue it's a failure of the iCloud system because it should be detecting up that sort of attack but I think it's more likely to be a crappy password choice. I'm sure most of the "phone hacking" cases were down to the victim's not bothering to set a password on their voicemail.
Another scenario is that it was leaked from inside Apple I suppose but even that should be almost impossible as the stored data should be encrypted. If that was the case there's a very big problem.
Can't say I have any great need to seek out the pics. It's not like there's a shortage of boobs on the net.
). Alternatively it could be a brute force attack where they systematically try logging in with all the common passwords until one gets them in.
It's pretty easy to find enough information about a celebrity to design a system that would fire off a few thousand guesses based on kid's names, significant dates etc.
If it's a brute force attack you could argue it's a failure of the iCloud system because it should be detecting up that sort of attack but I think it's more likely to be a crappy password choice. I'm sure most of the "phone hacking" cases were down to the victim's not bothering to set a password on their voicemail.
Another scenario is that it was leaked from inside Apple I suppose but even that should be almost impossible as the stored data should be encrypted. If that was the case there's a very big problem.
Can't say I have any great need to seek out the pics. It's not like there's a shortage of boobs on the net.
2 Step verification would've blocked this.
If you don't have it switched on, I'd do it now.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5570
If you don't have it switched on, I'd do it now.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5570
The Beaver King said:
This isn't finished yet either.
The OP released the original pictures over on 4chan. Since then he has posted a list of celeb pictures that will be released over the next 24/48 hours.
Cat Deeley is on there....
How about Joe brand?The OP released the original pictures over on 4chan. Since then he has posted a list of celeb pictures that will be released over the next 24/48 hours.
Cat Deeley is on there....
We need to know this
This is vital information
The hacker is a complete moron. If I managed to steal some very private photos off some very famous people from the cloud, which belonged to one of the most powerfull companies in the world, who have some of the brightest minds working for them and a bottomless pit of money, I'm not sure id be leaking them. I give it a couple of hours until the culprit is found and strung up to make an example off.
I'm not whiter then white, but i do find the people who are salivating over a few photos a bit creepy. There's a real world out there full of real women.
I'm not whiter then white, but i do find the people who are salivating over a few photos a bit creepy. There's a real world out there full of real women.
vescaegg said:
Doubt it. Icloud's T&C's;
'APPLE DOES NOT REPRESENT OR GUARANTEE THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE FREE FROM LOSS, CORRUPTION, ATTACK, VIRUSES, INTERFERENCE, HACKING, OR OTHER SECURITY INTRUSION, AND APPLE DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY RELATING THERETO.'
Also, on some of the pics they were taken with non Apple phones..'APPLE DOES NOT REPRESENT OR GUARANTEE THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE FREE FROM LOSS, CORRUPTION, ATTACK, VIRUSES, INTERFERENCE, HACKING, OR OTHER SECURITY INTRUSION, AND APPLE DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY RELATING THERETO.'
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