Celebrities Nude Photos Leaked-iCloud Not Secure!
Have you met a celebrity? Do you envy them? Well, it's not your fault if you do. It is the society and the media–obsessed culture that makes you read, talk and fantasize about them. People care what they see and embrace whom they like the most.
Celebrities are people who lead their life more in a limelight, with a lesser proportion of privacy. They are individuals, who have managed to earn popularity and prominence at a much faster pace, in their respective arenas. News about celebrities is something that always catches the eyes and ears of the people. Not only the rival, but commoners also love to know about their favorite. But the curiosity of people to know about their favorite often leads to disclose of secrets or lack of safety. The recent event of iCloud-hack-naked-celeb did something like that!
Celebrity Nude Photos Hack
Around 100 women celebrities have had naked and explicit pictures seemingly hacked from their iCloud accounts, that automatically stores photos, email, contacts and other information online. The photos came first on 4Chan and now all over the place. Most of the photos have been confirmed as being genuine, most notably by Oscar-winning star, Jennifer Lawrence.
Hacking cell phones or online accounts to access nude or personal images of celebs is hardly new, but this incident is potentially more disturbing as it is rumored to be associated with a broader attack on iCloud services.
It is thought to be the biggest celebrity hacking scandal in the history, as the cyber-thief having dozens of nude photos of the stars is still circulating it on the web. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri41exriaPY
The reaction on leaked images of celebrities
Although the list is long, but the celebrities like Jenny McCarthy, Rihanna, Kate Upton and the American actress Mary E Winstead along with Jennifer Lawrence are reported to be allegedly affected by the leaked images.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AWKk-sPeV8
The hacker is said to have 60 nude images of Jennifer Lawrence in compromising positions that got released on the internet within seconds. The sudden release image of celebrity began trending on Twitter where some of the fans of Jennifer wrote, "Today is a good day", but some fans got outraged by the photos and tweeted, "Guys can you please stop tweeting nudes of #JenniferLawrence she's a person! What are you doing?! Think before you tweet!!"
J-Law called this intrusion 'a flagrant violation of privacy' and also stated that they would prosecute anyone who share or post the leaked celebrity photo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZQ6cf_dqL4
Meanwhile Ariana Grande, the former Nickelodeon star and Victoria Justice came forward to say that their nude images were fake.
How safe or Unsafe various cloud service providers are?
Modern smartphones routinely save photos to the cloud as the phones lack enough capacity for the huge number of photos taken every day. Apple's iPhone saves photos to iCloud; Google's Android saves it on Google+ service; Microsoft's Windows Phone saves it on OneDrive service. For years, these photos remain stored and are reloadable if the user holds email id and password.
So far, it is not confirmed that iCloud was involved in this incident of phone hacked pictures, but the investigation is still going on. Cluley, there can be another possibility that the accounts of the celebs photo might have been hacked through someone who was handling their social media accounts or who regularly deal with their emails.
Although Apple has invested a lot of efforts in making the iOS secure, but the recent incident of celebrities leaked images showed that its products are far from hacker-proof.
Celebrities are people who lead their life more in a limelight, with a lesser proportion of privacy. They are individuals, who have managed to earn popularity and prominence at a much faster pace, in their respective arenas. News about celebrities is something that always catches the eyes and ears of the people. Not only the rival, but commoners also love to know about their favorite. But the curiosity of people to know about their favorite often leads to disclose of secrets or lack of safety. The recent event of iCloud-hack-naked-celeb did something like that!
Celebrity Nude Photos Hack
Around 100 women celebrities have had naked and explicit pictures seemingly hacked from their iCloud accounts, that automatically stores photos, email, contacts and other information online. The photos came first on 4Chan and now all over the place. Most of the photos have been confirmed as being genuine, most notably by Oscar-winning star, Jennifer Lawrence.
Hacking cell phones or online accounts to access nude or personal images of celebs is hardly new, but this incident is potentially more disturbing as it is rumored to be associated with a broader attack on iCloud services.
It is thought to be the biggest celebrity hacking scandal in the history, as the cyber-thief having dozens of nude photos of the stars is still circulating it on the web. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri41exriaPY
The reaction on leaked images of celebrities
Although the list is long, but the celebrities like Jenny McCarthy, Rihanna, Kate Upton and the American actress Mary E Winstead along with Jennifer Lawrence are reported to be allegedly affected by the leaked images.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AWKk-sPeV8
The hacker is said to have 60 nude images of Jennifer Lawrence in compromising positions that got released on the internet within seconds. The sudden release image of celebrity began trending on Twitter where some of the fans of Jennifer wrote, "Today is a good day", but some fans got outraged by the photos and tweeted, "Guys can you please stop tweeting nudes of #JenniferLawrence she's a person! What are you doing?! Think before you tweet!!"
J-Law called this intrusion 'a flagrant violation of privacy' and also stated that they would prosecute anyone who share or post the leaked celebrity photo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZQ6cf_dqL4
Meanwhile Ariana Grande, the former Nickelodeon star and Victoria Justice came forward to say that their nude images were fake.
How safe or Unsafe various cloud service providers are?
Modern smartphones routinely save photos to the cloud as the phones lack enough capacity for the huge number of photos taken every day. Apple's iPhone saves photos to iCloud; Google's Android saves it on Google+ service; Microsoft's Windows Phone saves it on OneDrive service. For years, these photos remain stored and are reloadable if the user holds email id and password.
So far, it is not confirmed that iCloud was involved in this incident of phone hacked pictures, but the investigation is still going on. Cluley, there can be another possibility that the accounts of the celebs photo might have been hacked through someone who was handling their social media accounts or who regularly deal with their emails.
Although Apple has invested a lot of efforts in making the iOS secure, but the recent incident of celebrities leaked images showed that its products are far from hacker-proof.
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