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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 01 2014, @10:01PM
And that makes me laugh. A lot.
(Score: 2) by mtrycz on Monday September 01 2014, @10:32PM
Well they're not pathetic just over the internet. They exist, somewhere in the world, in their pathetic existence.
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(Score: 1, Troll) by nyder on Monday September 01 2014, @10:41PM
What I find funny is all the people who act like their shit don't stink and they wouldn't download those pics. And yet, knowing humans like I do, I'm going to guestimate that at least 75% of you are downloading the pics.
I'm not scared to be who I am.
(Score: 1) by looorg on Monday September 01 2014, @10:48PM
... knowing humans like I do, I'm going to guestimate that at least 75% of you are downloading the pics.
For research. Nothing else. I had to verify my previous claims about them being all, or at least mostly, blurry cellphone pics. I was right. After all I don't want to come of like some internet douche that don't know what he is talking about ...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 02 2014, @12:11AM
Huh?
I don't know what you downloaded, but while they are mostly cellphone pics the quality is great. Modern iphones take great pictures. They aren't professionally lit or anything, but 95% of them are top quality for amateur shots.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Monday September 01 2014, @11:30PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 01 2014, @11:34PM
and moved on.
but most of the internet spent the entire day obsessed with it. will likely go on all week.
(Score: 2) by Popeidol on Tuesday September 02 2014, @03:45AM
It'll go on all week because somebody seems to be dripfeeding content, with promises of more in the future.
Usually that means they're trying to maximise publicity or income. No group has owned up to it yet and there's been no publicised way to get in contact with the owners to offer them money, so we have yet to see whether there's any underlying plan here. I'm interested to see whether they're going to try to sell exclusives to "news" companies, or set up a kickstarter-style effort (every x bitcoin that arrives in this wallet means a new pic!) or whether it's truly just for the lulz.
How this plays out will probably be a lot more interesting than the pictures themselves.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday September 02 2014, @11:54AM
"What I find funny is all the people who act like their shit don't stink"
I'm with nyder on this 100%. Its exactly like how if you want to find gay congressmen you look for the loudest homophobic republican and I guarantee that type is getting pounded in the ole docking port every night by some other dude or swapped positions, even worse often just a kid not adult.
When I was in the Army it was the same way, loud homophobic speech was repeatedly demonstrated to be a homo mating call, the louder two guys were about hating gays, the more likely you'd catch the two of them together with their pants down.
And they never take well to having this pointed out or laughing at them, however funny the situation.
Being a straight guy I don't entirely understand, but I think its along the lines of going way overboard on an attempt to camouflage such that you find the most camouflaged dude in the group, you Know exactly what he's up to and trying to hide/distract. I'm certain that the louder the complainer about the nudes, the more likely they got them open in another tab at the instant they're typing.