Reported iCloud Hack Leaks Hundreds of Private Celebrity Photos 336
swinferno writes with news about the leak of hundreds of private celebrity photos over the weekend. Hundreds of revealing pictures of female celebrities were leaked overnight after being stolen from their private collections. Hunger Games actress Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst, and pop star Ariana Grande were among the celebrities apparently shown in the pictures, which were posted on infamous web forum 4chan. It's unclear how the images were obtained, but anonymous 4chan users said that they were taken from celebrities' iCloud accounts. The accounts are designed to allow iPhone, iPad, and Mac users to synchronize images, settings, calendar information, and other data between devices, but the service has been criticized for being unreliable and confusing. Earlier this year, Jennifer Lawrence herself complained about the service in an interview with MTV.
Not 4chan (Score:2, Informative)
Actually the source was anonib.
But they were then posted all over 4chan yeah.
https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/10942405/09.01.2014_Celebrity_Nude_Photo_Hack_Collection_-__fappening
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:3, Informative)
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent... [thepiratebay.se]
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It might be a good idea to use a proxy and an antivirus.
Alleged leaker already named (Score:5, Informative)
Pretty good detective work: http://pastebin.com/cwAz9Y2r [pastebin.com]
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:3, Informative)
You don't need to take photos using an iDevice to have them end up in iCloud. All you need to do is use a Mac.
If you use a Mac to download pictures off your camera - including cell phones that aren't iPhones and therefore behave like standard cameras and don't require Apple-specific software - by default, your pictures will end up in iCloud. It's part of the "Photo Stream" thing to allow users to stream pictures to the Apple TV that clearly every Mac owner has.
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Alleged leaker already named (Score:4, Informative)
Spoiler:
A guy named Bryan Hamade from Georgia seems to have leaked them. Who stole them is still up for debate.
Where are these photos? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:5, Informative)
Not by default at all - you have to specifically add the photos to iPhoto and then turn on iCloud in system preferences.
Downloading pictures off a camera/usb stick/android phone can be done with Image Capture, and this does not put them on iCloud, just into folders on your computer.
Adding them to iPhoto is what puts them onto iCloud, and only if you turn it on - when you set up a Mac for the first time it asks you if you want it switched on (and prompts for an Apple ID).
If you use Aperture or iPhoto you can still keep things local only - there's a checkbox in preferences that turns off the iCloud sync.
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:4, Informative)
Interesting.
Direct source seems to confirm.
https://github.com/hackappcom/... [github.com]
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:4, Informative)
You don't need to take photos using an iDevice to have them end up in iCloud. All you need to do is use a Mac.
If you use a Mac to download pictures off your camera - including cell phones that aren't iPhones and therefore behave like standard cameras and don't require Apple-specific software - by default, your pictures will end up in iCloud. It's part of the "Photo Stream" thing to allow users to stream pictures to the Apple TV that clearly every Mac owner has.
Not only that... but anyone you share the photos with could have had an iPhone as well. By default smartphones backup your photos both with Google and Apple, so if anyone you shared the pics with gets hacked, you, by default are hacked as well.
Re:Solution (Score:4, Informative)
And how odd is it that your b.f. needs to answer one 'important' text message just as the blow job commences?
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:5, Informative)
"Since when has Apple prided itself or even claimed strict security? "
Uhh, remember the Macs don't get viruses campaign?
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Where are these photos? (Score:5, Informative)
Actually Apple do claim that iCloud is very secure: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT... [apple.com]
Apple have long claimed to offer platforms free from malware and protected from hacking too. iOS even protects your kids from inappropriate content. Apple make big claims about security all the time.
Re:Alleged leaker already named (Score:4, Informative)
This seems to explain how the pictures were acquired and that it wasn't just one guy stealing them and it isn't just one guy distributing them:
http://i.imgur.com/vnd0H9J.jpg [imgur.com]
Re: Where are these photos? (Score:4, Informative)
I'm not sure what agenda you are talking about. Is that some kind of lame accusation of being involved in PR for one of the companies I mentioned? Because that's the typical response from fanbois and other zealots whenever someone is not bending over and praising their false idols.
Your emperor has no clothes, it's a greedy corporation with a lousy track record for security and no concern for their customers. Saying that is not a blasphemy or a PR operation, it's just the naked truth.