Cyber Hacker has posted Naked photos of many celebs Online (according to Daily Mail)

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#196
bisousx said:
Check your spam inbox... I get emails all the time from scammers posing as a Nigerian prince who is ready to sign over his inheritance to me.
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There was a high-profile case in Australia earlier this year where that happened (re Nigeria), An older woman gave money, then went to visit - and was robbed and killed. Her family were understandably devastated. This was more related to online dating but cyber crime takes a lot of forms.

Nigerian Police Arrest Man Over Death of Australian Woman
 
#197
So is it that easy for people at Apple to access accounts, isn't there some kind of oversight that would still make that difficult? I notice no one in the press mentions it as a possibility which is probably how Apple likes it.


If it wasn't a someone at Apple and people took precautions with their email and passwords could they use Facebook to backtrack to your apple account? i.e could the metadata in a photo posted on your FB or friend's FB account be used to track and then hack your account.

I don't know that much about Jennifer Lawrence but from Oscar season interviews even I know who her family and some of her friends... who all might not be careful with their FB. Also a lot of minor celebrities aren't that careful with their FB privacy settings and it can be easy to identify people's FB page through friends and families even if people don't use their actual name.
 
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I don't think it's someone at Apple. I think its a hacker or a group of hackers who saw a crack in iCloud and they went after celebs specifically - though I do think some "plebs" (ie us normal people) probably got caught up in it as well. Some hackers want notoriety - some want the "ultimate hack", some do it specifically because there are $$$ to be made in the darker areas of the Net.
 
#200
I read earlier that it was a bunch of folks who were hacking into celeb accounts for sport and posting the pictures. Then some clown packaged the findings all up and leaked them. I don't know if that is how it went down, but it's cold comfort (NOT!!!) to think that there were several degenerate lowlifes hacking into to accounts for sport and posting what they found for others to drool over.

Rather than one mastermind with no life aspirations whatsoever than to find nude pictures of celebs and sports figures on line. There were many.

Because, there is nothing better to do on the face of the earth than that?

Who raised these people? WHO?
 
#201
what I find really odd is that alot of these photos look like photos that were being sent to someone, me personally, if I am going to take risque photos I save them in a zip drive or on my laptop but I never save them on my phone not even on my cloud, I mean Jill has a son has her son never said " Mom can I play with your phone" my son is always playing with my phone and God forbid he pull up my photos and see something meant for my DBF eyes. I just don't get why these photos were just hanging around their cloud stream
 
#204
dangerouscurves said:
I meant for a hacker who is not working for Apple, he would have to hack all celebrities iClouds to see who has naked pics, but if he works at Apple he doesn't even have to hack everyone's iClouds. He probably just sits there and has access to all the pictures of his fave celebrities and sort them. Hacking is also a lot of work, you know. Most hackers won't hack unless they gain some profits from it.
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This isn't the way it works. No one at Apple just has access to passwords. When setting up security for an app or software, they security protocols are implemented, THEN the users set their passwords. Employees would deal with the same firewalls you and I would deal with when trying to access someone's account.
 
#205
FreeSpirit71 said:
I think most of these celebs may have thought they deleted them but not carried through with the entire process. That is; off the phone but not off iCloud.
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That's one reason Apple is in trouble. Apparently, many people weren't aware that file were being backed up (stored) to the cloud. They may have thought the files were only on their handheld devices. Whether that's Apple's fault for not informing people, or the fault of the users for not understanding the process is unclear to me.
 
#206
There are different levels of hacking. One is to hack into the system itself via some type of administrative or maintenance portal where you gain access to multiple areas and data. That's how the credit card and financial user data hacks happen. And that's what Apple is saying didn't happen here.

The lower level is the brute force hack like this and the UK phone hacking case. You only gain access to a single user account at a time. The programs used can make hundreds of attempt a minute and don't stop until they get in. This is the other reason Apple is getting cored. That should not have been allowed to happen. Any more than 5 or 10 attempts on each account should have been blocked.

Try logging into some of your email or other accounts using the wrong password and see what happens. You usually get three attempts (sometimes a few more) before you get locked out. I think it even happens here on tPF.

Had Apple used even that simple lockout procedure, this case could (probably) not have happened.
 
#207
Singra said:
:laugh::laugh:... people are like that with everything to varying degrees, I think it gives everyone a sense that they can control things in a chaotic universe.

A few years ago while I was stopped at an intersection (in a fairly dangerous area) some guy smashed my closed window (my car doors were locked) with a crowbar hitting me in the chest. It happened really quickly but as he started to reach into the car I luckily managed to get my car into gear, reversed the car and was able to get away.
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Wow, I think you did great to think so quickly and get away in that situation. I'm glad you're ok.
 
#208
Kate Upton FBI Probes to See If Hacker Hooked Her by Phishing

 9/4/2014 1:00 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF

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The leaked photos of Kate Upton and her boyfriend didn't get out because of an iCloud security breach ... but instead she may have been the victim of one of the oldest tricks in the online scamming game.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... FBI investigators are looking into whether Kate and at least 3 other celebs -- Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jennifer Lawrence, and Lea Michele -- were prime targets of phishing.

If you don't know, here's how it works ... you get an email informing you there's some sort of problem with your account, and in order to fix it you'll need to send personal info -- such as a username, phone number, credit card, or even a password. So, you unwittingly give the crooks all they need to jack your data.

We're told in this case ... the email sent to the celebs might have been doctored up to look like it was coming from Apple. Phishing's been going on since the early days of the Internet, but scammers are so sophisticated now ... their emails look identical to the real deal.

J-Law and Kate's pics -- some with her BF pitcher Justin Verlander -- were among the first ones released Sunday by the hacker.

Reps for all 4 women haven't responded to our calls.



Read more: http://www.tmz.com#ixzz3CLwxyQsP
 
#209
The media is never going to let this story go.

Hire a PI (good luck finding one for this case), press charges, be careful moving forward...that's all they can do really.

BTW doesn't this hack scream teenage boy? J.Law? Victoria Justice? Kate Upton?
 
#210
Echoes said:
There are different levels of hacking. One is to hack into the system itself via some type of administrative or maintenance portal where you gain access to multiple areas and data. That's how the credit card and financial user data hacks happen. And that's what Apple is saying didn't happen here.

The lower level is the brute force hack like this and the UK phone hacking case. You only gain access to a single user account at a time. The programs used can make hundreds of attempt a minute and don't stop until they get in. This is the other reason Apple is getting cored. That should not have been allowed to happen. Any more than 5 or 10 attempts on each account should have been blocked.

Try logging into some of your email or other accounts using the wrong password and see what happens. You usually get three attempts (sometimes a few more) before you get locked out. I think it even happens here on tPF.

Had Apple used even that simple lockout procedure, this case could (probably) not have happened.
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That's what I've been reading. That was supposedly the breach. If a criminal is trying to gain access to an account by using brute force, a system should be in place whereby 3 or 5 failed attempts at password entry should 1) automatically kick out the criminal and 2) have the account holder receive an email or text notice about failed login attempts.
 
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