After more than 40 hours of investigation, we have discovered that certain celebrity accounts were compromised by a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions, a practice. A hacker's invasion of dozens of celebrity icloud accounts, leading to the embarrassing leaking of nude photos, has lessons for us all Here are five things you should know about what happened. The 2014 fappening hackers used phishing to trick celebrities into entering their icloud account credentials into bogus 'security' websites and then accessed private photographs and videos of more than 300 victims However, it is unclear what attack vector attackers used in the latest hack to broke into celebrities' icloud accounts. Ryan collins has pleaded guilty to unauthorized access to a computer in a trial where he has been charged with hacking (via engadget) more than 50 icloud and 70 gmail accounts
Collins admitted to gaining access between november 2012 and september 2014 to search through accounts for explicit material. Celebs hacked, nude pics posted online reports indicate that a hack of apple's icloud is to blame, though apple has not yet commented on the issue. Apple 'actively investigating' icloud link to celeb photo leak company's online storage service said to be source of a large cache of private nude celebrity images. The leak of personal photos of female celebrities, has tech observers questioning and debating potential vulnerabilities in apple's icloud. The breach revealed critical misunderstandings about cloud storage security, as users weren't aware that deleted photos could persist on servers The incident sparked major debates about digital privacy and led apple to strengthen security.
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