Celebrity Nude Leak & Apple

[ucfgrad93]

Moral of the story: WATCH WHAT YOU PUT IN THE CLOUD!!!

Winner, winner chicken dinner.

 

[EM2013]

Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton (which unfortunately includes a shot of Justin Verlander's bare ass. Lucky bastard though) just to name a couple.

I've seen the photos, and I only have one word to say about them:

YouTube: video

I haven't seen that particular pic of kate upton but I did see another pic that looked good lol

 

[kerrikins]

I imagine Apple's lawyers and PR are going to be all over this and justifiably so, a lot of people are wondering if they're vulnerable themselves and 'iCloud' is the only word being passed around right now.

To be honest I have some questions myself, because at least one celeb has said that these were pictures she had deleted off her phone/etc - so why/how were they still in iCloud, if that's the case?

 

[MikhailT]

...To be honest I have some questions myself, because at least one celeb has said that these were pictures she had deleted off her phone/etc - so why/how were they still in iCloud, if that's the case?

Deleting the photos do not mean it is deleted everywhere else. It may have been in her backups stored on the iCloud or elsewhere.

Don't forget that if they sent it to others, the other persons would still have these copies even if the original sender deleted them.

According to an infosec guy on Twitter who is looking into it, one leak looked as if the photos came from the boyfriend or husband's device rather than the celeb.

 

[swingerofbirch]

I didn't even know the iCloud was taking naked pictures of me.

I didn't sign up for that.

I guess that's why you have to read those long terms and conditions.

 

[Iconoclysm]

this is gonna be VERRRRRY bad press for Apple.

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A massive leak of nude and risque photos appearing to be of huge stars like Jennifer Lawrence, Ariana Grande, Victoria Justice, and Kate Upton leaked online today, first appearing on the /b/ thread on 4chan.

The pictures allegedly were retrieved due to an iCloud leak that allowed celebrities’ phones to be hacked, and were posted on 4chan in an attempt to earn bitcoins.

Edit: oops can someone move this to the proper iCloud category. didnt realize there is one and i am on my phone

Nice clickbait thread title there. At least add allegedly.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Not sure about anyone else... but I don't tend to make it a habit of having nude pics of myself (or partners)... at all, in any way shape or form. That eliminates that issue right there.

My thoughts exactly.

Seriously, why the narcissistic need to document everything, and I mean everything? Is it to reassure themselves that they are playing the starring role in their own life story, to an adoring audience? This gives the expression 'the oxygen of publicity' a whole new depth and dimension of meaning…...

 

[Kariya]

Take the pics all you want just keep them local or on a separate drive. No one should be using a service they can't manually manage.

Its the one thing that bugs me about iCloud. Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox all give you fine-grained controls. But you can't sufficiently manage the photos you dump on iCloud until you upgrade to Yosemite or iOS8 which i find ridiculous.

Its bad PR for Apple because this happened on their turf.

 

[ProVideo]

It will be interesting to see how Tim Cook handles this. I think his "they would have to cart us out in a box" was just blowing smoke for the public. If he uses more lip service and moves on like nothing happened once again, Apple will risk losing even more credibility when they want focus on their new product lineup in a few weeks.

If this is on Apple's end, Cook needs to take responsibility quickly and thoroughly show what they are doing to fix it and make their services more secure. Instead of buying up companies for highly inflated values, invest a chunk of that stockpile into security. If their attention to fighting spame over the years is any indication, I can't say I have much hope in that though.

 

[jafingi]

As long as we haven't got a confirmation from Apple, I keep everything open.

I've read somewhere that some of the pictures isn't even taken on an iPhone. It could also be WhatsApp or Snapchat that is the source for the leak?

We'll have to wait and see..

 

[gotluck]

Weird how all the stories are referencing some icloud vulnerability

 

[dotme]

There evidently was a vulnerability. Patched now. Coincidence? Maybe.

http://www.zdnet.com/apple-patches-find-my-iphone-exploit-7000033171/

 

[rei101]

Just in time... I wanted to buy Apple shares at $80, not at $100 =)

But the articles about this issue are so funny.

"If only the clouds in the sky would leak beautiful naked famous ladies..."

"It's national Nude leak Day"

"No one is safe. Delete the pics and hide your iCloud, Bro."

"iCloud will probably go down any minute as all the celebs scramble to delete their pics."

http://mashable.com/2014/08/31/social-media-goes-wild-over-celebrity-nude-photo-leak/

Thank you Apple!

 

[AlliFlowers]

The other truth is that these celebrities were targeted. Some individual could have spent months cracking their iCloud passwords. It's not likely they hacked into iCloud so that they could see everyone's.

 

[rei101]

The other truth is that these celebrities were targeted. Some individual could have spent months cracking their iCloud passwords. It's not likely they hacked into iCloud so that they could see everyone's.

The story about this issue is going to be sooooo goood. This tread should be making headlines in the front page instead of more leaking pictures of the iPhone 6. I bet every one at Apple is about the iCloud hack only.

 

[ProVideo]

This tread should be making headlines in the front page instead of more leaking pictures of the iPhone 6. I bet every one at Apple is about the iCloud hack only.

This is nothing but a widely reported potential security flaw in Apple's cloud services resulting in multiple celebrities having their personal data released to the public by hackers. We can't have that stuff taking up frontpage space when there are more important Apple related stories out there like Flappy Bird updates.

 

[DipDog3]

The story about this issue is going to be sooooo goood. This tread should be making headlines in the front page instead of more leaking pictures of the iPhone 6. I bet every one at Apple is about the iCloud hack only.

Probably waiting for some confirmation that iCloud is the source of the breaches.

It is looking more likely that the "Find My iPhone" service was brute forced & used to obtain iCloud backups with the leaked photos & videos. Apple has patched the flaw, but the photos were allegedly stolen weeks ago.

 

[ucfgrad93]

My thoughts exactly.

Seriously, why the narcissistic need to document everything, and I mean everything? Is it to reassure themselves that they are playing the starring role in their own life story, to an adoring audience? This gives the expression 'the oxygen of publicity' a whole new depth and dimension of meaning…...

Coupled with that is how people obsessively follow "stars" and it makes me sad.

 

[rei101]

My thoughts exactly.

Seriously, why the narcissistic need to document everything, and I mean everything? Is it to reassure themselves that they are playing the starring role in their own life story, to an adoring audience? This gives the expression 'the oxygen of publicity' a whole new depth and dimension of meaning…...

My friend, those "Narcissistics" at least have achieve something. The worse are the ones that have achieve nothing and still trying to get attention.

I live in Miami, the cradle of the wannabes... if you knew...

 

[Carlanga]

Slow down cowboy, words have meanings. People have been social engineering and breaking weak passwords for a long time now, and using the same password across many sites. Time will tell if this is a exploit or not.

Here you go:

Earlier today, The Next Web spotted code on software development site Github, that would have allowed malicious users to use ‘brute force’ to gain an account’s password on Apple iCloud, and in particular its Find my iPhone service.
A message has since appeared saying that Apple has issued a fix for the bug. 'The end of the fun, Apple has just patched,' read an update on the post
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Owen Williams from The Next Web, who discovered the bug, said: 'The Python script found on GitHub appears to have allowed a malicious user to repeatedly guess passwords on Apple's "Find my iPhone" service without alerting the user or locking out the attacker.
'Given enough patience and the apparent hole being open long enough, the attacker could use password dictionaries to guess common passwords rapidly. Many users use simple passwords that are the same across services so it's entirely possible to guess passwords using a tool like this.
'If the attacker was successful and gets a match by guessing passwords against Find my iPhone, they would be able to, in theory, use this to log into iCloud and sync the iCloud Photo Stream with another Mac or iPhone in a few minutes, again, without the attacked user's knowledge.
'We can't be sure that this is related to the leaked photos, but the timing suggests a possible correlation.'

This is all Apples' fault, I can see apple $ reserve dwindling down

Also, I can't believe MR hasn't said anything about this yet. THis is MAJOR apple news since icloud was easily hacked since forever it appears. If MR really is an open source of informing all things apple, they should have already posted about this. They don't have to post the pictures of course, jut report on the news and show the findmyiphone icon as a picture for the post.

 

[Happybunny]

Coupled with that is how people obsessively follow "stars" and it makes me sad.

It's not new but the modern media has made it much worse.

 

[coolbreeze]

I've come across very sketchy boards that "rip" iCloud accounts.

Lots and lots of them.

Timing is planned, have no doubt. Most likely Android fans trying to bash Apple ahead of it's event.

It's not ok that Apple's iCloud has been so insecure. Expect major fallout from this.

Oh, and just in case it wasn't clear already, keep your nudes out of the cloud. Let this be a lesson for all of humanity.

Bottom line is this is a gaping hole in iCloud, regardless of what device (Android/Apple/Nokia/whatever) took the images. You can store anything on iCloud as you all know. Be careful out there kids...

Edit: exploit seems to be running still as we speak (NOT mine, found on Reddit....)

TIM?!

 

[smithrh]

More than a few phones in the pictures are *not* iPhones.

Also, the timing of this is interesting, done on a Sunday during a 3-day holiday.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Hey all. Here is a great way that is 100% fool proof for making sure your naked photos don't get into the wrong hands. It always works.

Don't take naked photos.

It is quite simple. If you have photos taken of you digitally, they will leak.

Back in the dark ages (film), people didn't take photos of themselves naked. People didn't need to do it then, why do they now?

 

[Renzatic]

Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton

On one hand, these are real people we're looking at, and I think this is a pretty large violation of their privacy. On the other hand...

...damnit, I couldn't resist. I had to see 'em.

And the neverending struggle between big head and little head continues.