Connecticut Man Sent to Prison for 2014 Celebrity iCloud Hack

[MacPDiddy]

I feel like 8 months in prison is kind of harsh for getting dumb people to hand over a password.

And PSA for celebrities: don't store your naked pictures in the cloud.

Are you kidding me? I’m pissed as hell that I’ve got to jump through passwords, authentication steps and the rest because these asshats are attempting theft, and some it leads to bank accounts and worse.

Blaming the victim is idiocy.

 

[MacLoveMacHate]

Why is this called a hack when these people gave them their password. This is why anti-Apple people still try to blame Apple saying they were hacked and leaked the pictures.

Yeah, gotta defend Apple on this one if it was only phishing rather than a corporate security breach, but you know, headlines.

 

[fairuz]

The "hack" probably made some not so famous celebruties more famous and more marketable. I do not doubt that some in Hollywood "hack" themselves to promote their careers.

I don't think that many celebrities colluded to have these nudes given out, knowing that people will be sent to jail for it. That would be incredibly cold-hearted. Could be that some of them were happy in the end that the nudes were leaked, but that's different.
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Have you ever had a romantic partner?

Yeah, but we've never done that. Sounds very weird. But I know people do that.
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Why is this called a hack when these people gave them their password. This is why anti-Apple people still try to blame Apple saying they were hacked and leaked the pictures.

What about accounts broken into using SMS interception and/or guessing weak passwords? Are those hacks?

Apple should've forced 2FA on accounts that used something sensitive like the photos service. There are always a few dumb users who will have their accounts broken into, but because it happened to so many, it's apparent Apple wasn't guiding their users well enough to secure the data.

 

[insomniac86]

I know secretly (probably included some judges) many guys around the world had a fantastic weekend. haha

 

[chucker23n1]

Do understand the difference between friends and a romantic partner?

Sure, but, like, teen girls share pictures among friends all the time.

Should there be more education about risks? Sure. Should we blame victims? Nope.

Yeah, but we've never done that. Sounds very weird. But I know people do that.

Eh. Some are into it; some aren’t. It’s fine.

 

[2979382]

Not sure what to make or this? It’s partly an excuse for crime, and partly blaming Apple which even I didn’t do! And partly blaming the victims of the crime
It’s a crime, it’s dead easy to steal someone’s phone, doesn’t make it any less of a crime, I wouldn’t make an excuse for that either?
And it is hacking just as much as it is phishing, both illegal and both explanations in the English Oxford Dictionary cover this act.

And no, I don’t buy second hand hard drives to snoop on the data left on them by previous owners, I have morals.

And so according to you, if an 18 year old takes nude photos, a ‘hacker’ steals the, and sells them for money, and then posts them all over the internet, that’s fine because they are an ‘adult’, they should just shut up and stop complaining? Wow..

Also if people don’t like the term ‘hacked’, go and complain to the story editor/ writer on this site.

I said none of what you implied I said. I was merely trying to make the point that there is more than one entity at blame here. Just because in a discussion one might play the devil's advocate for a change to maybe present the issue from a different perspective, does not mean anything more than exactly that: trying to present the issue from all sides, and this one, like I said, is a tricky one, where no one is entirely innocent.