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posted by janrinok on Monday September 01 2014, @06:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-store-personal-photographs-on-an-internet-connected-device dept.

PapayaSF and AnonTechie write in with 2 stories which seem to be linked. The first is the leak of nude and personal photographs of celebrities, and the second is perhaps the flaw that allowed someone to access the photographs.

Stars Exposed in Massive Nude Photo Leak

Nude celebrities, bitcoins, and Apple: it's a story seemingly designed to stir up the entire internet. Scores of private photos of celebrities such as Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Kirsten Dunst, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead have been leaked (allegedly from Apple's iCloud), and posted on 4chan in exchange for bitcoins. A list of 100+ names has appeared, but pictures have not yet appeared for many names on the list (including Kate Bosworth, Kim Kardashian, Rihanna, and Kaley Cuoco). Victoria Justice claims the photos of her are fake. Twitter accounts are being shut down. The story is still developing, so grab your popcorn.

This could be the Apple iCloud flaw that led to celebrity photos being leaked.

An alleged breach in Apple’s iCloud service may be to blame for countless leaks of private celebrity photos this week.

On Monday, a Python script emerged on Github (which we’re not linking to as there is evidence a fix by Apple is not fully rolled out) that appears to have allowed malicious users to ‘brute force’ a target account’s password on Apple’s iCloud, thanks to a vulnerability in the Find my iPhone service. Brute force attacks are where a malicious user uses a script to repeatedly guess passwords to attempt to discover the correct one.

The vulnerability allegedly discovered in the Find my iPhone service appears to have allowed attackers to use this method to guess passwords repeatedly without any sort of lockout or alert to the target. Once the password has been eventually matched, the attacker can then use it to access other iCloud functions freely.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2014/09/01/this-could-be-the-apple-icloud-flaw-that-led-to-celebrity-photos-being-leaked/

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/is-apples-icloud-safe-after-leak-of-jennifer-lawrence-and-other-celebrities-nude-photos-9703142.html

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Monday September 01 2014, @07:18PM

    by VLM (445) on Monday September 01 2014, @07:18PM (#88173)

    I saw those pix on 4chan last night or the night before or whatever it was, and I was unimpressed... without a team of makeup artists and extensive photoshopping some of those women don't look as good as expected... can see some better stuff on /r/gonewild and a zillion other places any time. ms diggity whatever-her-name-is, just some random amateur chick on reddit, looks better than all of the celebrities. Don't get me wrong, solid 8/10 or better, I'd look if they walked by me in the hallway, but my reaction to the pix was "eh".

    /b/ being its usual /b/, "some" of the supposed pix are certain to be photoshops of the actress on someone elses body.

    Not having an iphone, I'm surprised iphones can't take video and/or chicks that are supposedly snap-happy camera pix takers in pix mode aren't making hot videos. This is reason #2 I think some (many?) are fakes. Where's the hot sexting logs and emails and videos and just random no pr0n pix.

    It sounds like typical trolling, and in a couple days we'll see all kinds of funny posts with collections of headlines of media that got fooled.

    There are "superfans" or whatever you call them on 4chan and reddit that can identify pr0n stars based on only small closeups of fun body parts, and I bet if they got to work we'd figure out who got photoshopped onto who's head. I have to say whoever is in the supposedly Ariana Grande over the shoulder pix, celebrity or not, is the most amazing pix of the bunch I saw, or rephrased, whoever that is, she should be famous.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by VLM on Monday September 01 2014, @07:50PM

    by VLM (445) on Monday September 01 2014, @07:50PM (#88184)

    "just random no pr0n pix"

    Here's another missing pix example I just thought of. Where's the drug use pix? And don't go telling me all of these chicks and all their friends "just say no to drugs". Not to mention hangovers. Of course those might be for sale to the highest (LOL) bidder and not public yet.

    And has anyone checked the metadata to make sure its realistic, I'd LOL if this supposed iDevice hack has pix taken with android phones or at the GPS coordinates of pr0n studios using pro camera gear.

    Finally an analysis of metadata would be interesting. Are celebrities taking pix of each other and if so, who is hooking up with who? Might be plenty of scandal there.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 01 2014, @10:50PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 01 2014, @10:50PM (#88230)

      Where's the drug use pix?

      There are no pictures of dudes either. Male celebs don't do this kinda thing? I find that hard to believe. I would assume there is a market for those kinda pictures to.

      • (Score: 2) by PapayaSF on Tuesday September 02 2014, @02:15AM

        by PapayaSF (1183) on Tuesday September 02 2014, @02:15AM (#88329)

        There are no pictures of dudes either. Male celebs don't do this kinda thing? I find that hard to believe. I would assume there is a market for those kinda pictures to.

        1. A much, much smaller market.
        2. I suspect that even in Hollywood, male stars are less likely to take nude selfies.
        3. I suspect the hacker was a straight male, so he's going to prefer to look for photos of naked females instead of photos of naked males.
        • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday September 02 2014, @11:39AM

          by VLM (445) on Tuesday September 02 2014, @11:39AM (#88450)

          What about "action shots" of a couple? None? Weird.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 02 2014, @04:44AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 02 2014, @04:44AM (#88369)

      exiftool -datetimeoriginal -gpslatitude -gpslongitude -csv -r C:\torrents\The.Fappening > gpsdata.csv
      Raw output here: http://pastebin.com/vmjxTypJ [pastebin.com]

      Out of the 448 files on the torrent, most have all exif data stripped only 48 have GPS data. GPS data is available for the following people and covers approximately 8-10 locations
      -Ali Michael
      -Jessica Brown Findlay
      -Kate Upton

      You probably cant add much to the current scandal, but knock yourself out.

      Keep in mind: exif data can be easily forged. We don't know much about the people behind this, but chances are they're technically capable.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 01 2014, @08:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 01 2014, @08:32PM (#88194)

    JLaw came out of this looking good.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 01 2014, @08:39PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 01 2014, @08:39PM (#88195)

      > JLaw came out of this looking good.

      I agree. I thought her pics were adorable. Probably the most wholesome "dirty" selfies I've ever seen.