Celebrity hack 'unlikely' a wide-scale iCloud breach

  • 1 September 2014
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By  Tom PayePublished  September 1, 2014
 
Despite a number of celebrities having had their iCloud accounts compromised, a wide-scale ‘hack' of Apple's iCloud service is unlikely, according to Trend Micro's Rik Ferguson.
 
Earlier this morning, news broke that celebrities such as Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton had had nude photos stolen from their private iCloud accounts. The perpetrator of the cyber-crime posted up the stolen images on counter-culture site 4Chan, as well as a list of other celebrity accounts that he had compromised.
 
Despite the worries this may cause over the security of iCloud, however, Ferguson explained in a blog post that it was much more likely that the victims were individually targeted. He based this on the nature of the material that was stolen from their accounts and the fact that only certain celebrities were involved
 
itp.net/ full article here/ http://www.itp.net/599629-celebrity-hack-unlikely-a-wide-scale-icloud-breach

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So they took naked pictures of themselves. Then they uploaded them to a cloud-based storage system. They they are surprised/shocked/secretly happy for the publicity when their account gets hacked.

It's amazing some people can even use the bathroom anymore without their smartphone telling them to go.
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The following article is a update on Celebrity Hack
 

(Apple 'actively investigating' celebrity iCloud hack)

By  Tom PayePublished  September 2, 2014
 
Apple is "actively investigating" news this week that a large number of celebrities' iCloud accounts have been hacked, leading to the publishing of a slew of private photos.
 
In a statement given to Re/code, an Apple spokesperson said that the vendor takes user privacy very seriously, and that it was investigating the breach.
 
Celebrities such as Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Kirsten Dunst are among those said to have had their iCloud accounts breached, according to reports. The hacker initially posted up the stolen images on photo-sharing site 4Chan, before they were reproduced on other social media sites such as Twitter and Reddit.
 
Given the fact that only a specific set of people were attacked, and the nature of the data that was stolen, security experts have opined that the hack was highly targeted, and likely not a wide-scale breach of the iCloud online storage service
 
itp.net/ full article here/ http://www.itp.net/599644-apple-actively-investigating-celebrity-icloud-hack
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Interesting that Apple chimed in finally.  I'm curious as to what they find.

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